A new genus of fossil frog (Anura) from lower Cretaceous deposits in South America

The frog clade Neobatrachia or “advanced frogs” represents more than 95% of the diversity within Anura. neobatrachian fossil record is incomplete due to small size and fragile nature their bones but provides some clues on time rate current diversification modern-day amphibians. Crato Formation (Aptian) northeastern Brazil known for presence of, at least, five species fossils. Herein, we describe a well-preserved that new taxon from (Cretaceous) in Araripe Basin, Brazil, perform phylogenetic analysis assess its higher-level relationships. specimen an almost complete articulated skeleton with soft tissue preservation. Phylogenetic recovered nested Hyloidea our results highlight remarkable value as Laggerstätte.