{{Short description|Extinct genus of amphibians}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = | image = | taxon = Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis | authority = [[John W. Cosgriff|Cosgriff]] and [[Neil K. Garbutt|Garbutt]], 1972<ref name="Cosgriff1972" /> }}
'''''Erythrobatrachus''''' is an extinct [[genus]] of [[trematosauria]]n [[temnospondyl]] within the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Trematosauridae]]. The sole species '''''Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis''''' was separated to a monotypic genus, distinguishing it from related taxa when the description was published in 1972. The type material was a matrix cast revealing the impression of several fragments of skull excavated at the [[Blina Shale]] formation in the northwest of the Australian continent.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cosgriff |first=John W. |last2=Garbutt |first2=Neil K. |date=1972 |title=Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis, a trematosaurid species from the Blina Shale |url=https://biostor.org/reference/200745 |journal=Journal R Soc West Aust |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=5–18}}</ref> The genus name is derived from ancient Greek, combining terms for red, ''erythro'', with frog, ''batrachos'', to describe the iron staining of the fossilised amphibian specimens. The type location described by the specific epithet was [[Noonkanbah Station]].
A 2026 study showed that one of the specimens originally assigned to ''Erythrobatrachus'' actually belonged to another temnospondyl, ''[[Aphaneramma]].''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kear |first=Benjamin P. |last2=Campione |first2=Nicolás E. |last3=Siversson |first3=Mikael |last4=Bazzi |first4=Mohamad |last5=Hart |first5=Lachlan J. |date=2026-02-22 |title=Revision of the trematosaurid Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis confirms a cryptic marine temnospondyl community from the Lower Triassic of Western Australia |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2601224 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |language=en |doi=10.1080/02724634.2025.2601224 |issn=0272-4634|hdl=1959.4/107120 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> This specimen was presumed lost until it was recovered in a museum collection in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], USA.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hart |first=Lachlan |date=2026-02-22 |title=250 million-year-old amphibian fossils from Australia reveal global spread of ‘sea-salamanders’ |url=http://theconversation.com/250-million-year-old-amphibian-fossils-from-australia-reveal-global-spread-of-sea-salamanders-276162 |access-date=2026-02-25 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US |doi=10.64628/AA.fs46eh53a}}</ref> ==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology}} * [[Prehistoric amphibian]] * [[List of prehistoric amphibians]]
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Cosgriff1972">{{cite journal |last1=Cosgriff |first1=John W. |last2=Garbutt |first2=Neil K. |title=''Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis'', a trematosaurid species from the Blina Shale |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia |date=1972 |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=5–18 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/209913}}</ref>
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{{Temnospondyli|T.}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q5396442}}
[[Category:Lonchorhynchines]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1972]] [[Category:Amphibians of Western Australia]]
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