1. Distant reading can be seen as one methodological approach to surface reading, as “ [c]omputers are weak interpreters but potent describers, Anatomizers, taxonomists” (Best and Marcus 2009: 17).

2. An unmistakable Batrachian of this order, referred by its describer to Palaeobatrachus, a determination which is only provisional, has been discovered in the Kimmeridgian of the Sierra del Montsech, Catalonia (25), in a therefore somewhat older formation than the Wealden Caudata Hylaeobatrachus.