frogamander
nounEtymology From blend of frog + salamander.
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Biology, History, Human sciences, Natural sciences, Paleontology, Sciences The extinct amphibamid Gerobatrachus.
- This amphibian Abraham, aka the frogamander, lived during the early Permian but was only discovered in 2007, a fossil in Don's Dump Fish Quarry in Baylor County, Texas.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 14:
- The “frogamander” is still full of mystery as scientists work to figure out how and where it fits in the amphibian family tree.2016, Melissa Shofner, Mariel Bard, Amphibian Fossils, page 21: