his article is about the group of amphibians. For other uses, see Frog (disambiguation) . Frogs Temporal range: Early Jurassic – Present , 200–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Various types of frogs. Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Clade : Salientia Order: Anura Duméril , 1806 (as Anoures) Subgroups See text Native distribution of frogs (in green) Variegated golden frog ( Mantella baroni ) in the Ranomafana National Park of Madagascar A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally without tail in Ancient Greek ). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar , but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian , 265 million years ago . Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to
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