Beelzebufo
Sign in to saveBeelzebufo ( or ) (meaning "devil toad") is an extinct genus of hyloid frog from the Late Cretaceous Berivotra and Maevarano Formations, approximately 70 million years ago in what is now Madagascar. The type species is B. ampinga, and common names assigned by the popular media to it include devil frog, devil toad, and the frog from hell.
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Beelzebufo ( or ) (meaning "devil toad") is an extinct genus of hyloid frog from the Late Cretaceous Berivotra and Maevarano Formations, approximately 70 million years ago in what is now Madagascar. The type species is B. ampinga, and common names assigned by the popular media to it include devil frog, devil toad, and the frog from hell.
== Discovery and naming == left|thumb|Three-dimensional digital reconstruction, with blue and light gray representing known fossils The first fossil bones were found in 1993 by David W. Krause of New York's Stony Brook University, and the species Beelzebufo ampinga was named and described by Evans, Jones & Krause (2008). The holotype is specimen UA 9600, consisting of a fused cervical and second presacral centra.