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Triadobatrachus massinoti guards its spawn at the edge of a pond in the Early Triassic.

Triadobatrachus

Triadobatrachus massinoti
Era: Early Triassic

Time: 250,000,000 BCE

Habitat: swamps and ponds

Diet: insects & invertebrates

Location:  What is now Madagascar

Size: 4”

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Triadobatrachus (’triple frog’) represents the first known member of the frog and salamander lineage.

Triadobatrachus lives much like our timeline’s modern amphibians, and could even hop like a frog. However, the distinctive fused ring of bones formed from a frog’s collarbone, sternum and ribcage that grants a frog the ability to land would come much later, making every escape attempt a clumsy crash landing. 

Triadobatrachus, like most amphibians, cannot endure the presence of saltwater, and needs fresh water in order to properly respirate.

In our timeline, triadobatrachus would be the ancestor of Prosalirus, the first true frog, The divergent effects of the Amphiterra timeline would manifest subtly at first, instead evolving into the Common Eofrog (Novabatrachus vulgaris),  which would not seem totally unfamiliar to a visitor from our timeline.
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EVOLVES INTO:
COMMON EOFROG
Novabatrachus Vulgaris

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Triadobatrachus Common Eofrog Marbled Snapapple Banded Suckerlump Tropical Frondle Inhabited Lorge and Colonial Gobolin Foaming Squander Foaming Trogglefolk Eon Toad Lowland Dogus Lanky Frogget Tree Frixel Temperate Freeple Gliding Alloo Greater Moistboy Plains Bullpronk Catastrophic Fraggon Steppe Fraggon Splendid Fraggon Arctic Fraggon Image Map
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  • World
  • Creatures
    • Triadobatrachus
    • Common Eofrog
    • Greater Moistboy
    • Plains Bullpronk
    • Steppe Fraggon
    • Catastrophic Fraggon
    • Splendid Fraggon
    • Arctic Fraggon
    • Lanky Frogget
    • Tree Frixel
    • Temperate Freeple
    • Lowland Dogus
    • Foaming Squander
    • Foaming Trogglefolk
    • Eon Toad
    • Gliding Alloo
    • Marbled Snapapple
    • Banded Suckerlump
    • Tropical Frondle
    • Inhabited Lorge & Colonial Gobolin
  • Downloads
  • About
    • Inception
    • Research
    • Design
    • Illustration
    • 3D Modeling
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Contact
  • Fanart