Salientia

Salientia Temporal range: Early Triassic – Present, 250–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Hourglass Treefrogs Hyla ebraccata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Superorder:	Batrachia
Clade:	Salientia Laurenti, 1768
Subgroups
†Czatkobatrachus †Triadobatrachus Anura

The Salientia (Latin salire, salio meaning "to jump") are a total group of amphibians that includes the order Anura, the frogs and toads, and various extinct proto-frogs that are more closely related to the frogs than they are to the Urodela, the salamanders and newts.^[1] The oldest fossil "proto-frog" appeared in the early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their origins may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago.