Genus: Cryobatrachus COLBERT & COSGRIFF, 1974 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:

Species: kitchingi COLBERT & COSGRIFF, 1974 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: In reference to Kitching Ridge, Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica, Antarctica.

Holotype: AMNH 9503

Locality: Kitching Ridge, Transantarctic Mountains, immediately east of Shackleton Glacier, lat 85'13S., long 174'30"W, Queen Maud Mountains, East Antarctica, Antarctica.

Horizon: Lower part of the Fremouv Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Anisian Stage, Lower Mid Triassic Epoch, Early Middle Triassic.

Material: Skull in the rock, lacking the palate and braincase.

Referred material:

AMNH 9537: Scattered fragments of skull and jaws.

AMNH 9540: Small skull, crushed, broken and distorted.


Paratype: AMNH 9556

Locality: Thrinaxodon Col., on the southwest flank of Mount Kenyon, about 25 km. or 15 miles due east of the type locality, lat 85'13S, long 177'30W, Transantarctic Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains, East Antarctica, Antarctica.

Horizon: Lower part of the Fremouv Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Anisian Stage, Lower Mid Triassic Epoch, Early Middle Triassic.

Material: Impression of a portion of a skull roof.

Locality: Coalsack Bluff, Transantarctic Mountains, approximately at lat 84'15S, long 162'20E, Queen Maud Mountains, East Antarctica, Antarctica.

Horizon: Lower part of the Fremouv Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Anisian Stage, Lower Mid Triassic Epoch, Early Middle Triassic.

Material:

AMNH 9331: A very fine right clavicle.

AMNH 9332: Right radius.

AMNH 9339: A fragment of a mandibular ramus with 4 teeth of a juvenile.

AMNH 9340: A small portion of a skull roof.

AMNH 9341: Intercentrum.

AMNH 9342: A large portion of a right clavicle.

AMNH 9343: A part of a left clavicle.

AMNH 9344: Fragment of an interclavicle.

AMNH 9345: Left ilium.

AMNH 9347: Articular portion of mandible.

AMNH 9348: Articular portion of a left mandibular ramus.

AMNH 9382: Tibia.

AMNH 9383: Left exoccipital.

AMNH 9384: Fragment of a clavicle.

AMNH 9385: Left exoccipital.

AMNH 9386: Centrum of atlas.

AMNH 9387: Articular.

AMNH 9388: Interclavicle.


Locality: Halfmoon Bluff, Shackleton Glacier, Transantartic Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains, East Antarctica, Antarctica.

Horizon: Lower part of the Fremouv Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Anisian Stage, Lower Mid Triassic Epoch, Early Middle Triassic.

Material:

AMNH 9541: Portion of a maxilla and a small skull.

COSGRIFF & HAMMER, 1984

Locality: Shenk Peak, Transantartic Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains, East Antarctica, Antarctica.

Horizon: Fremouv Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Anisian Stage, Lower Mid Triassic Epoch, Early Middle Triassic.

Material:

WSUVP 1012: Fragmentary interclavicle.

 

Locality: Collinson Ridge, Transantartic Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains, East Antarctica, Antarctica.

Horizon: Fremouv Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Anisian Stage, Lower Mid Triassic Epoch, Early Middle Triassic.

Material:

WSUVP 1099: A piece of dermal bone, part of a skull roof or interclavicle.