Enneabatrachus

Enneabatrachus (meaning "[Quarry] nine frog") is an extinct genus of prehistoric frogs known from the late Jurassic Morrison Formation of the United States^[1] and also the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Ksar Metlili Formation of Morocco.^[2] The type species is E. hechti (named in 1993),^[3] whose remains have been recovered from stratigraphic zone 5.^[4]

Enneabatrachus Temporal range: Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, Kimmeridgian–Berriasian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Alytidae
Genus:	†Enneabatrachus Evans and Milner, 1993
Species:	†E. hechti
Binomial name
†Enneabatrachus hechti Evans and Milner, 1993

One specimen has been recovered from Quarry 9 of Como Bluff in Wyoming and another specimen was later reported from Dinosaur National Monument.^[1] The Como Bluff specimen was an ilium only a few millimeters long.^[1] Indeterminate specimens are known from Morocco.^[2]

E. hechti's live weight would have only been a few grams.^[1]

See also

• Paleontology portal

• Prehistoric amphibian
  • List of prehistoric amphibians
• Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation