[HTML][HTML] First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia

T Mörs, M Reguero, D Vasilyan - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Cenozoic ectothermic continental tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) have not been
documented previously from Antarctica, in contrast to all other continents. Here we report a …

The earliest equatorial record of frogs from the Late Triassic of Arizona

MR Stocker, SJ Nesbitt, BT Kligman… - Biology …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Crown-group frogs (Anura) originated over 200 Ma according to molecular phylogenetic
analyses, though only a few fossils from high latitudes chronicle the first approximately 60 …

A giant frog with South American affinities from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

SE Evans, MEH Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Madagascar has a diverse but mainly endemic frog fauna, the biogeographic history of
which has generated intense debate, fueled by recent molecular phylogenetic analyses and …

Evidence of a giant helmeted frog (Australobatrachia, Calyptocephalellidae) from Eocene levels of the Magallanes Basin, southernmost Chile

RA Otero, P Jimenez-Huidobro, S Soto-Acuna… - Journal of South …, 2014 - Elsevier
The fossil record of frogs from South America has improved dramatically in recent years.
Here we describe a distal fragment of a large-sized humerus recovered from the middle–to …

[HTML][HTML] The earliest direct evidence of frogs in wet tropical forests from Cretaceous Burmese amber

L Xing, EL Stanley, M Bai, DC Blackburn - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Frogs are a familiar and diverse component of tropical forests around the world. Yet there is
little direct evidence from the fossil record for the antiquity of this association. We describe …

A novel archosauromorph from Antarctica and an updated review of a high-latitude vertebrate assemblage in the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction

BR Peecook, RMH Smith, CA Sidor - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Triassic-aged fossil vertebrates have been sporadically collected from the Fremouw
Formation, central Transantarctic Mountains, since their initial discovery in the late 1960s …

Early Cretaceous neobatrachian frog (Anura) from Brazil sheds light on the origin of modern anurans

F Agnolin, I de Souza Carvalho, AMA Rolando… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
The fossil record of anurans in South America is scarse, especially for Mesozoic-aged beds.
The aim of the present paper is to describe a new neobatrachian anuran coming from the …

[HTML][HTML] New Material of Beelzebufo, a Hyperossified Frog (Amphibia: Anura) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

SE Evans, JR Groenke, MEH Jones, AH Turner… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The extant anuran fauna of Madagascar is exceptionally rich and almost completely
endemic. In recent years, many new species have been described and understanding of the …

[HTML][HTML] The first record of albanerpetontid amphibians (Amphibia: Albanerpetontidae) from East Asia

R Matsumoto, SE Evans - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Albanerpetontids are an enigmatic fossil amphibian group known from deposits of Middle
Jurassic to Pliocene age. The oldest and youngest records are from Europe, but the group …

Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary

YJ Feng, DC Blackburn, D Liang… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Frogs (Anura) are one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates and comprise nearly 90% of
living amphibian species. Their worldwide distribution and diverse biology make them well …