First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61973-5
Abstract: Cenozoic ectothermic continental tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) have not been documented previously from Antarctica, in contrast to all other continents. Here we report a fossil ilium and an ornamented skull bone that can be attributed… read more here.
Keywords: fossil frog; cosmopolitanism; gondwanan cosmopolitanism; antarctica implications ... See more keywords