Saltenia Explained

Saltenia is an extinct genus of frogs. It was assigned to the family Pipidae by R. L. Carroll in 1988 and again in 2005 by A. M. Báez and T. Harrison.^[1] The single described species, Saltenia ibanezi, is thought to have lived in South America in the Late Cretaceous.

Its closest living relative are the frogs in the genus Silurana.^[2] Fossils of Saltenia have been found in the Campanian Las Curtiembres Formation of Argentina.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Paleobiology Database. 2009-09-25.
2. Trueb. Linda. Ana María Báez . March 2006. Revision of the Early Cretaceous Cordicephalus from Israel and an assessment of its relationships among pipoid frogs . . The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology . 26 . 1 . 44–59 . 10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[44:ROTECC]2.0.CO;2.
3. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=taxonInfo&taxon_no=37438 Saltenia