Genus: Kuruleufenia GOMEZ, 2016
Etymology: Mapudungun (Araucanian), Kuru Leufu, "Rio Negro," the province of the fossil.

Species: xenopoides GOMEZ, 2016
Etymology: From Xenopus and Greek, oides, "like," for its overall resemblance to extant xenopodine pipids.

Holotype: MACN-PV RN 1064

Locality: Several paleontological localities nearby Trapalco and Santa Rosa Depressions (Cerro Tortuga, Bajo Santa Rosa, Cerro Bonaparte), about 120 km south-west of Lamarque, Rio Negro Province, Argentina.

Horizon: Lower Member, Allen Formation.

Biostartigraphy:

Age: Upper Campanian-Lower Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: An almost complete sphenethmoid.

Referred material:

MACM-PV RN 1065: Sphenethoid.

MACM-PV RN 1066: Almost complete right humerus.

MML-PV 1042: 2 incomplete humeri.

MML-PV 1047: ?Fifth presacral vertebra and 2 incomplete presacrals.

MML-PV 1057-1058: 2 otic capsules.

MML-PV 1060-1061: Incomplete ilia.

MML-PV 1062-1063: Incomplete presacrals.

 

Locality: Cerro Cuadrado Locality, Rio Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina.

Horizon: Los Alamitos Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Campanian-Lower Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

MML-PV 1059: Incomplete sacrourostyle.

 

= cf. Xenopus BAEZ, 1987

Locality: Cerro Tortuga, Bajo de Santa Rosa, Cerro Bonaparte, Rio Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina.

Horizon: Los Alamitos Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Allenian Tetrapoda Assemblage, Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

MACN-RN 159: A portion of skull, an incomplete vertebra, 5 humeri and an incomplete right ilium.