Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas

Plate 16, Figure 2 from the original description (Taylor, 1942). A fragment of a sacral centrum with one coceygeal condyle and right diapophysis of *Rana parvissima*, Holotype, KUVP 6451 ; ventral view,

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

Small Frog
†Lithobates parvissima (Taylor 1942)

Conservation Status:
Extinct

Diagnosis:
A very diminutive anuran, having a rana-like sacral diapophyses, the coccygeal condyle very short, and separated from its fellow by a distance more than four-fifths the transverse width of the condyle. The bone between the condyles forms a sharp, horizontal, posterior edge. Description of type.—The fragmentary sacrum has the anterior articular surface divided from top to bottom by a well-defined vertical groove. The centrum is not constricted. A marked depression is present between the two condyles, terminating abruptly anteriorly. The coccygeal condyle has practically no stalk, the articular surface being terminated by a deep groove.

Distribution:
Known only from the type locality. Rexroad member, upper Pliocene, locality 3, 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.
2012	Martin, Carolina (Albaladejo), Borja Sanchiz, and Miguel Angel Alonso-Zarazaga. Nomenclatural notes on living and fossil amphibians. Graellsia 68(1):159-180 References Kansas specimens of Bufo hibbardi from Edson Quarry, Bufo pliocompactilis from WaKeeney, Bufo repentinus from Cragin Quarry, Bufo rexroadensis and Bufo suspectus from Fox Canyon, Bufo spongifrons from Long Island Quarry, and nine Rana from Rexroad.

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