μCT recovers hidden anatomy in the unique holotype and bounds an early frog-lineage body before crown Anura.
Represented range251.902–247 Ma
RegionsMiddle Sakamena equivalent beds near Betsiaka, Madagascar
CladesTriadobatrachus massinoti · stem Salientia
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morphology · medium
μCT of the unique split-nodule holotype MNHN.F.MAE.126 reveals a stem-salientian body with fifteen presacrals, caudal vertebrae and possible mentomeckelians; it records an early frog-lineage mosaic, not crown Anura or specialized jumping.