Eobatrachus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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†Eobatrachus agilis Marsh, 1887[1]
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Eobatrachus is a dubious[2] genus of extinct frog known only from the holotype, YPM 1862, part of the right humerus, found in Reed's Quarry 9 near Como Bluff, Wyoming in the Late Jurassic-aged Morrison Formation.[3][4] The type, and only species, E. agilis, was named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1887 and he initially interpreted it as a mammal,[1] although it was later re-classified as a genus of frog related to Comobatrachus[5] and Eobatrachus is now seen as a dubious amphibian genus, possibly belonging to Anura (frogs) according to Foster (2007).[4]