Prosalirus

Taxobox
name = "Prosalirus bitis"
fossil_range = Early Jurassic
status = Fossil

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Prosalirus bitis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Prosaliridae
genus = "Prosalirus"
species = "P. bitis"
binomial = "Prosalirus bitis"
binomial_authority = Shubin & Jenkins, 1995

"Prosalirus bitis" is the name given to a fossil proto-frog found in Arizona in 1995, which has primitive features, but has mostly lost the salamander-like traits of its ancestors. It has a skeleton designed to absorb the force of jumping with its hind legs and tail. It is thought to have lived 190 million years ago, well before the first known modern frog, sanyanlichan cite journal | quotes=no | journal = Nature | volume = 377 | pages = 49–52 | date = 7 September 1995 | doi = 10.1038/377049a0 | title = An Early Jurassic jumping frog | author = Neil H. Shubin and Farish A. Jenkins, Jr] .

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