AFRICA

NIGER

APPROCIMATELY 90 KM EAST-NORTH-EAST OF TAHOUA

IN BECTEN (OR IBECTEN)

IBECTEN FORMATION

CONIACIAN-SANTONIAN

SENONIAN SUBEPOCH

MIDDLE GULF EPOCH

EARLY CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: AMPHIBIA LINNAEUS, 1758

SUBCLASS: LISSAMPHIBIA, HAECKEL, 1866?

SUPERORDER: BATRACHIA BRONGNIART, 1800

ORDER: CAUDATA SCOPOLI, 1777

Incertae sedis

Gen. sp indet.

SUPERORDER: SALIENTIA LAURENTI, 1768

ORDER: ANURA RAFINESQUE, 1815

SUBORDER: MESOBATRACHIA LAURENT, 1979

Superfamily: PIPOIDEA Gray, 1825 (sensu Fitzinger, 1843)

Family: PIPIDAE Gray, 1825

Incertae sedis

*Pachybatrachus taqueti

Subfamily: XENOPINAE Fitzinger, 1843

Cf. Xenopus

Gen. sp indet.

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: CHELONOMORPHA KUHN, 1960

SUPERCOHORT: TESTUDINES LINNAEUS, 1758

COHORT: CASICHELYDIA emend GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

MAGNORDER: PLEURODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

ORDER: PLEURODIRIDA COPE, 1864

SUBORDER: EUPLEURODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

Superfamily: PELOMEDUSOIDES Cope, 1868 Cope, 1868

Family: PELOMEDUSIDAE Cope, 1868

Undescribed

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