Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas

Plate 14, Figure 5 of the original description (Taylor, 1942). A nearly complete sacral vertebra of *Lithobates meadensis*, Holotype KUVP 6376, (A) dorsal view, (B) ventral view.

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

Meade Frog
†Lithobates meadensis (Taylor 1942)

Conservation Status:
Extinct

Diagnosis:
A medium sized frog with the coccygeal condyles rather wide apart and their articular surfaces directed somewhat posteroventrally. A distinct, broad, shallow depression on the ventral surface between the bases of the stalks of the condyles, continues back more than half the length of the centrum. The posterior edges of the sacral diapophyses if extended on neural arch, form a very obtuse median angle. The type sacrum is nearly complete, lacking only the distal parts of the diapophyses.

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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