''Eopelobates'' is an extinct genus of

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...

s in the family Pelobatidae. Closely related to the living European spadefoot toad, it is known from the

Eocene The Eocene ( ) is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes ...

of western North America, and the Eocene–

Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

References

*Spinar, Z.V. & Rocek, Z. 1984
The discovery of the impression of the ventral side of ''Eopelobates anthracinus'' Parker, 1929 holotype
Amphibia-Reptilia 5: 87–95. † Taxa named by Hampton Wildman Parker Fossil taxa described in 1929 {{mesobatrachia-stub