Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas

Plate 14, Figure 1 of the original description (Taylor, 1942). A sacral vertebra wi the diapophyses fragmentary of *Lithobates ephippium*, Holotype KUVP 6370, (A) dorsal view, (B) ventral view.

AMPHIBIA (Amphibians) ANURA (Frogs) RANIDAE (True Frogs)

Saddlecloth Frog
†Lithobates ephippium (Taylor 1942)

Conservation Status:
Extinct

Diagnosis:
A small frog with the ventral surface of centrum saddle-shaped; the articular surfaces of the coccygeal condyles directed posteroventrally; a depression between the bases of the condyles only, and a low median ridge on the ventral surface of the centrum. This sacral vertebra has the left sacral dia- pophyses broken away at its base, while the distal half of the right is missing.

Distribution:
Known only from the type locality. Rexroad member, upper Pliocene, locality 3, about 16 miles southwest of Meade, Meade county, Kansas.
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Occurrence Summary:
2
Records
2
Museum Vouchers
0
Other Observations

Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Meade (2);

Natural History:

Remarks:

Bibliography:

1928	Ortenburger, Arthur I. The whip snakes and racers: Genera Masticophis and Coluber. Memiors of the University of Michigan Museum (1):1-247
1942	Taylor, Edward H. Extinct toads and frogs from the upper Pliocene deposits of Meade County, Kansas. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 28(10):199-235
1945	Lane, Henry H. A survey of the fossil vertebrates of Kansas, Part II. Amphibia. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 48(3):286-316
1985	Schultze, Hans-Peter, L. Hunt, J. Chorn, and A. M. Neuner. Type and figured specimens of fossil vertebrates in the collection of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. Part II. Fossil amphibians and reptiles. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publications (77):1-66 Also check on several listed names not in KHA as KS taxa.

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