Description
- Latonia sp.
- Fossil Frog
- Miocene Age
- Gracanica Region
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eastern Europe
- The matrix measures 10.5″ long and the frog measures 8.3″ long in a straight line measurement. Specimen seems to be frozen in a mid-air hop.
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Latonia is a genus of frogs in the family Alytidae (formerly Discoglossidae). It contains only one extant species, the Hula painted frog which is endemic to Israel and was originally classified in the genus Discoglossus, though several fossil species are known from the Paleogene and Neogene periods (Upper Oligocene to Early Pleistocene) in Europe.
*The Neogene informally Upper Tertiary or Late Tertiary, is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period 23.03 million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period 2.58 Mya. The Neogene is sub-divided into two epochs, the earlier Miocene and the later Pliocene.
