Named By: | KeinQin Gao & Yuan Wang in 2001 |
Time Period: | Unavailable |
Location: | China, Liaoning Province - Yixian Formation |
Size: | About 69 millimetres long |
Diet: | Insectivore |
Fossil(s): | Single specimen |
Classification: | | Chordata | Amphibia | Anura | |
Mesophryne beipiaoensis is an extinct species of frog, from the Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning (China), and the only species in the genus Mesophryne. It is known from a single specimen collected near Heitizigou, 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Beipiao, from which the specific epithet derives. The specimen has a snout-vent length of 69 millimetres (2.7 in).