Altanulia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of frogs}}

{{automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early Cretaceous, {{Fossil range|99.6|65.5}}

| taxon = Altanulia

| authority = Gubin, 1993

| type_species = {{extinct}} Altanulia alifanovi

| type_species_authority = Gubin, 1993

}}

Altanulia is an extinct genus of frogs.{{cite web |url=http://www.lisanfos.mncn.csic.es/?module=taxon&id=310&lang=en |title=Altanulia Gubin, 1993a |author1=Martín, C. |author2=Sanchiz, B. |year=2014 |work=Lisanfos KMS. Version 1.2. Online reference accessible at www.lisanfos.mncn.csic.es |publisher=Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, MNCN-CSIC, Madrid (Spain) |accessdate=9 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309171853/http://www.lisanfos.mncn.csic.es/?module=taxon&id=310&lang=en |archive-date=2014-03-09 |url-status=dead }}

== Description ==

The holotype of Altanulia - PIN 553/300 -, consisting of an isolated 20 mm long maxilla bearing 45-47 teeth, was found by the Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition in the southern Gobi Desert, Nemegt Formation, and dates from the Upper Cretaceous (Upper Campanian-Lower Maastrichtian). Altanulia was diagnosed on the basis in the "Posterior part of maxilla deep, with longitudinal wedge-shaped labial depression; pterygoid tubercle of maxilla well expressed; frontal process in anterior part of bone."{{Cite book|last1=Benton|first1=Michael J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzVGpo3M998C&dq=info:kdYCHdvc2ksJ:scholar.google.com/&pg=PA304|title=The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia|last2=Shishkin|first2=Mikhail A.|last3=Unwin|first3=David M.|last4=Kurochkin|first4=Evgenii N.|date=2003-12-04|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-54582-2|language=en}}