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Triadobatrachus

''Triadobatrachus'' ('triple-frog') is an extinct genus of frog-like amphibian, including only one known species, ''Triadobatrachus massinoti''. It is the oldest member of the frog lineage known to science, and an excellent example of a transitional fossil. It lived during the Early Triassic about 250 million years ago, in what is now Madagascar.
''Triadobatrachus'' was long, and still retained many primitive characteristics, such as possessing fourteen vertebrae, where modern frogs have only four to nine. Six of these vertebrae formed a short tail, which the animal retained as an adult. It probably swam by kicking its hind legs, although it could not jump, as most modern frogs can. Its skull resembled that of modern frogs, consisting of a latticework of thin bones separated by large openings.
This creature, or a cousin, evolved eventually into modern frogs, the earliest example of which is ''Prosalirus'', millions of years later in the Early Jurassic.
It was first discovered in the 1930s, when Adrien Massinot, near the village of Betsieka in northern Madagascar, found an almost complete skeleton. The animal must have fossilized soon after its death, because all bones lay in their natural anatomical position. Only the anterior part of the skull and the ends of the limbs were missing. This fossil was initially described under the name ''Protobatrachus massinoti'' by the French paleontologist Jean Piveteau in 1936. Much more detailed description were published more recently.
Although it was found in marine deposits, the general structure of ''Triadobatrachus'' shows that it probably lived for part of the time on land and breathed air. Its proximity to the mainland is further borne out by the remains of terrestrial plants found together with it.
==References==

*Benes, Josef. Prehistoric Animals and Plants. Pg. 114. Prague: Artia, 1979.

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