>>Why not salafroger?
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>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/sc_nm/fossil_frog_dc
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>>"The discovery of a "frogamander," a 290 million-year-old fossil that links modern frogs and salamanders, may resolve a longstanding debate about amphibian ancestry, Canadian scientists said on Wednesday."

The scientist who described this fossil as intermediate between frog and salamander is Jason Anderson. IIRC, I debated him a few times on Usenet newsgroup sci.bio.paleontology a few years ago. He used to be a grad student studying under paleontologist and herpetologist Robert L. Carroll. Anderson's interpretation may not be correct, and there will also likely be skeptics who disagree with this interpretation. In fact, some molecular data show salamanders to be close relatives of caecilians, with frogs a more distant relative. Anyhow, the "frogamander" fossil is older than the oldest known frog fossil, so it is at least consistent with the fossil record.

http://evo.bio.psu.edu/hedgeslab/Publications/PDF-files/101.pdf

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