Czatkobatrachus

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Czatkobatrachus polonicus was a frog -like Lurch and belongs to the taxon Salientia in which the extant anurans ( Anura ) were combined with some primitive fossil relatives. He lived in the Lower Triassic period about 245 million years and is considered by Triadobatrachus as the second oldest known to science froschlurchähnliche animal.

Fossil, noncontiguous remains of animals were found in karst deposits at Czatkowice near Kraków. Czatkobatrachus is the first Lurch from the group of Salientia from the Lower Triassic of the northern part of Pangea. He is possibly only 5 million years younger than Triadobatrachus from Madagascar ( the southern part of Pangea was then). It is concluded that the frogs home group Salientia were distributed at the beginning of the Mesozoic world and must have their origin in the Permian.

Czatkobatrachus polonicus was named after its place of discovery and the Greek name for frogs ( batrachos ).

The animals were about 5 cm long and had probably even a short tail, similar Triadobatrachus. Opposite Triadobatrachus Czatkobatrachus is further developed in relation to the anatomy of the vertebrae and the elbow joint.

The systematic position of Czatkobatrachus is illustrated by the following cladogram:

† Triadobatrachus

† Czatkobatrachus

NN: † Prosalirus, Vieraella, † Notobatrachus, Anura ( Anura )