Vulcanobatrachus
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vulcanobatrachus-163-3662524
title:
Vulcanobatrachus
text:
Vulcanobatrachus is an extinct genus of fossil frog. The genus contains the single species Vulcanobatrachus mandelai found at Marydale, South Africa, described in 2005 and named after Nelson Mandela. The genus owes its name to the fact that fossils were recovered from an extinct volcanic crater lake of Late Cretaceous age. The fossil frogs are assumed to have died following a limnic eruption (a degassing event possibly of CO2) by the volcano. The existence of fossil specimens was discovered acci
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of amphibians
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcanobatrachus
date created:
2009-02-17T15:16:40Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T06:47:20Z
main entity:
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