Talk:Liaobatrachus

Merger proposal
I propose to merge Callobatrachus and Mesophryne into Liaobatrachus as these taxa are considered as synonymous on Fossilworks. Loopy30 (talk) 20:00, 31 October 2019 (UTC) Given the taxonomic uncertainty, it's probably better to reseparate them. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:48, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Merged. Loopy30 (talk) 00:16, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per the most recent paper published on the matter  (page 2) "...another nominal taxon (Liaobatrachus Ji and Ji, 1998) from the Yixian Formation is here treated as a nomen dubium (but see Dong et al., 2013), because the poorly preserved holotype specimen (GMV 2126) provides insucient information to permit recognition of this as a dis-tinct species. Dong et al. (2013) provided a taxonomic revision of the Jehol fossil frogs, in which the three taxa (Callobatrachus, Mesophryne, and Yizhoubatrachus) were grouped collectively in a single genus and were synonymized with Liaobatrachus. is revision, however, remains conten-tious and is not supported by a recent phylogenetic analysis (Chen et al., 2016). Here we treat the three Jehol frogs as independent taxa and keep their original names"
 * Yes, agreed. There are several other recent papers that also consider that these taxa are separate as well. Un-merge away! Loopy30 (talk) 23:25, 9 September 2022 (UTC)