Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas

Plate 14, Figure 2 of the original description (Taylor, 192). A sacral vertebra, with diapophyses wanting of *Lithobates valida*, Holotype KUVP 5133, (A) dorsal view, (B) ventral view.

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

Strong Frog
†Lithobates valida (Taylor 1942)

Conservation Status:
Extinct

Diagnosis:
Characterized by the elongate stalks of the coccygeal condyles. The centrum is widest through the distal part of the condyles, and much constricted near its anterior end. The following measurements are in milli- meters: Length of centrum with condyles, 5.3; width of centrum, 3.7; width at ends of condyles, 4.6; lateral width of neural arch, 2.6; height of neural canal, 1.9; width of neural canal, 3.3; width of type, 7.0; estimated total width, 17.0.

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.

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