ORDER IV ANUEA 139 



lignites near Bonn yield not only numerous perfect skeletons, but impressions 



Pectoral arch of 

 Sana temporaria ; 

 ost, Omosternum ; 

 ssc, Suprascapula ; 

 prc, Precoracoid . 

 C07-, Coracoid ; st, 

 Sternum ; Xst, Xi- 

 phisternum. (The dotted fjarts are cartilag 



^^ 



Fig. 234. 



Fig. 235. 



Larvae of Palaeo- 

 hatnxchiis fritschii, 

 Wolterstorff. Mio- 

 cene Lignites ; Kal- 

 tennordheini, Rhön. 

 Vi (after Wolterstorff 

 and Meyer). 



l'alaeobatrachus grandipes, Giebel. Lignite ; Orsberg in 

 Siebengebirge. 2/3 (after Wolterstorff). 



of tadpoles belonging to the genus Palaeo- 

 batrachus, Tschudi, are plentiful (Figs. 

 234, 235). 



Perfect skeletons of large toads 



(Latonia seyfriedi, v. Meyer; Pelophilus 



agassizi, Tschudi) are known from the 



Miocene freshwater marls of Oeningen, 



The equivalent deposits of Günzburg, Sansan, and Sinigaglia likewise 



yield remains of tailless Batrachians. Pleistocene Anura, like late Tertiary 



Urodeles, belong exclusively to recent genera. 



VERTICAL RANGE OF AMPHIBIANS. 



Baden. 



[The preceding chapter 011 Amphibia has been translated and extended, without altering 

 the Classification, by Dr. E. C. Gase, of the State Normal School at JSIilwaukee, Wisconsin. 

 — Editor.] 



