Since the acceptance of Wegener's theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s, continental drift
vicariance has been proposed as an explanation for pan-Gondwanan faunal distributions …

ABSTRACT Recent expeditions to Upper Cretaceous strata in the Mahajanga Basin of
northwestern Madagascar have established the first pre-Holocene record of frogs from that …

Background In contrast to the Western Palearctic and Nearctic biogeographic regions, the
phylogeography of Eastern-Palearctic terrestrial vertebrates has received relatively little …

Worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) are burrowing squamates that live as subterranean predators.
Their underground existence should limit dispersal, yet they are widespread throughout the …

A discoglossid frog in the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of India. Further evidence for a
terrestrial route between India and Laurasia in the latest Cretaceous CNRS Inist Pascal-Francis …

A small palaeobatrachid from the Late Eocene of Kučlín, Czech Republic is described and
compared with Middle Eocene palaeobatrachids from Messel, described here as …

Previous genetic studies of frogs from Mayotte Island (a French Overseas Department in the
Comoros Archipelago) in the Western Indian Ocean have provided evidence for oceanic …

We review the historical sequence of discoveries of Majungasaurus crenatissimus, an
abelisaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation …

Recently, fossil land mammals have been recorded in the James Ross Island area, east of
the Antarctic Peninsula, from the marine middle-late Eocene strata of Seymour Island. These …

The frog Leptodactylus validus occurs in northern South America, Trinidad and Tobago, and
the southern Lesser Antilles (Grenada and St. Vincent). Mitochondrial DNA sequences were …