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MESOPHRYNE
(me-so-fre-ney)
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 |
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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).

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