Eobarbourula delfinoi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Bombinatoridae
Genus: †Eobarbourula
Species: Eobarbourula delfinoi

Name

Eobarbourula delfinoi Folie et al., 2012

Holotype: GU/RSR/VAS 5001 (Fig. 2A), nearly complete left ilium.

Type locality: Cambay Shale Formation, middle Ypresian, early Eocene. Vastan Lignite Mine, Surat District, Gujarat, India.

Etymology: The species name is for Italian paleontologist Massimo Delfino, who alerted the authors to the presence of a particular articulation similar to a zygosphene-zygantrum complex on the vertebrae of this taxon.

References

• Annelise Folie, Rajendra S. Rana, Kenneth D. Rose, Ashok Sahni, Kishor Kumar, Lachham Singh & Thierry Smith 2012: Early Eocene frogs from Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, India. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (in press). DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0063.