{{Short description|Extinct genus of frogs}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Campanian<br />~{{Fossil range|86|71}} | taxon = Saltenia | authority = Reig 1959<ref name="paleobio-db"/> | subdivision = †''Saltenia ibanezi''<ref name="amphibian-biology-p26">{{citation |url=http://rocek.gli.cas.cz/Reprints/AmphBiol3.pdf |author=Robert L. Carroll |author2=Harold Heatwole |title=Amphibian Biology: The Evolutionary History of Amphibians |volume=4 |accessdate=2009-09-25 |publisher= Surrey Beatty & Sons |page=26}}</ref> }}
'''''Saltenia''''' is an extinct genus of frogs. It was assigned to the family Pipidae by R. L. Carroll in 1988 and again in 2005 by A. M. Báez and T. Harrison.<ref name="paleobio-db">{{cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37438|title=The Paleobiology Database|access-date=2009-09-25}}</ref> The single described species, ''Saltenia ibanezi'', is thought to have lived in South America in the Late Cretaceous.<ref name="amphibian-biology-p26"/>
Its closest living relative are the frogs in the genus ''Silurana''.<ref name="trueb">{{cite journal |last=Trueb|first=Linda|author-link=Linda Trueb|author2=Ana María Báez |date=March 2006|title=Revision of the Early Cretaceous ''Cordicephalus'' from Israel and an assessment of its relationships among pipoid frogs |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |publisher=The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=44–59 |url=https://www.amphibiatree.org/sites/amphibiatree.org/files/TruebBaez2006_Cordicephalus.pdf |doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[44:ROTECC]2.0.CO;2}}</ref> Fossils of ''Saltenia'' have been found in the Campanian Las Curtiembres Formation of Argentina.<ref name=FWSaltenia>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37438 ''Saltenia''] at Fossilworks.org</ref>
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† Category:Late Cretaceous amphibians Category:Campanian life Category:Cretaceous amphibians of South America Category:Cretaceous Argentina Category:Fossils of Argentina Category:Salta Basin Category:Fossil taxa described in 1959
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