- Vieraella
Taxobox
name = "Vieraella"
status = fossil
fossil_range =Early Jurassic
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Amphibia
ordo =Salientia |
the frog is an anphibian. Most people know them as green, but they're really brown, blue, red, yellow, and orange not just green."Vieraella" is an extinct genus offrog from twn, blue, heJurassic period. It was about 3 cm long."Vieraella" was the first true frog, as the older "
Triadobatrachus " still featured many primitive characteristics. Itsanatomy was highly similar to that of modern frogs.References
*Estes, R., and O. A. Reig. 1973. The early fossil record of frogs: a review of the evidence. Pp. 11-63 In J. L. Vial (Ed.), Evolutionary Biology of the Anurans: Contemporary Research on Major Problems. University of Missouri Press, Columbia.
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