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Electrorana

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549: 302: 126: 108: 316:, which show varying states of completeness. These specimens have a body length of 2 centimetres (0.79 in) though it has been suggested that they are likely to have been juveniles. 590: 609: 257:
is an extinct genus of frog that lived in what is now Myanmar during the mid-Cretaceous, around 99 million years ago. The type and only species is
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Zhang, Jing; Dong, Liping; Du, Baoxia; Li, Aijing; Lei, Xiangtong; Zhang, Mingzhen; Wang, Sen; Ma, Guorong; Hui, Jianguo (2023-01-01).
583: 498:"First fossil evidence for a new frog from the Early Cretaceous of the Jiuquan Basin, Gansu Province, north-western China" 629: 125: 293:), while the specific epithet is given in honour of Mrs. Mo Li, who purchased and provided the specimens for study. 619: 576: 301: 548: 448:"The Early Cretaceous frog Genibatrachus from China: Osteology, development, and palaeogeographic relations" 624: 329: 222: 509: 497: 459: 402: 336:, with unclear relationships to living basal frog clades. A close relationship with the extinct frog 639: 358: 338: 120: 525: 475: 428: 560: 391:"The earliest direct evidence of frogs in wet tropical forests from Cretaceous Burmese amber" 517: 467: 418: 410: 30: 513: 463: 406: 447: 423: 390: 603: 313: 65: 107: 333: 521: 361:, making it one of the oldest known frogs to have inhabited such an environment. 40: 471: 414: 85: 50: 529: 479: 167: 137: 90: 432: 157: 80: 75: 60: 55: 45: 95: 70: 343: 147: 300: 556: 312:
was described on the basis of four different specimens found in
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Xing, L.; Stanley, E. L.; Bai, M.; Blackburn, D. C. (2018).
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Roček, Zbyněk; Dong, Liping; Wang, Yuan (2023-04-27).
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of North America has been found in some phylogenies.
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Upper Cretaceous
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Electrorana
Binomial name

Burmese amber
basal
Neobatrachia
Aerugoamnis
Eocene
tropical rainforest

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