frogamander
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From blend of frog + salamander.
Noun
[edit]frogamander (plural frogamanders)
- (paleontology) The extinct amphibamid Gerobatrachus.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 14:
- 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.
- 2016, Melissa Shofner, Mariel Bard, Amphibian Fossils, page 21:
- The “frogamander” is still full of mystery as scientists work to figure out how and where it fits in the amphibian family tree.