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A new specimen ofEopelobates (Anura: Pelobatidae) from the tertiary near Bonn (Germany) and the problem ofE. anthracinus-E. bayeri relations

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Ein Exemplar vonEopelobates aus den Braunkohleschichten des obersten Oligozän in der Nähe von Bonn, das seit dem vergangenen Jahrhundert in der Sammlung des Institutes und Museums für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen aufbewahrt wird, gehört wahrscheinlich zuE. anthracinus. Sein voll verknöchertes, aber durch eine geringe Größe charakterisiertes Skelett legt nahe,E. anthracinus als eigene, vonE. bayeri verschiedene Art anzusehen. Beide Arten sind sehr nahe miteinander verwandt.

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The newly rediscovered specimen ofEopelobates from the uppermost Oligocène brown coal measures near Bonn, Germany, deposited since the last century in the collections of the Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen, most probably belongs toE. anthracinus. Its small but fully ossified skeleton suggests that it is reasonable to keep the speciesE. anthracinus separate fromE. bayeri, although both species are closely related.

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  1. Department of Palaeontology, Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Rozvojová 135, 165 00 Prague 6, Suchdol, Czech Republic

    Zbynék Roček

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Roček, Z. A new specimen ofEopelobates (Anura: Pelobatidae) from the tertiary near Bonn (Germany) and the problem ofE. anthracinus-E. bayeri relations. Paläont. Z. 69, 283–287 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02985991

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