The lissamphibian fossil record of South America

LA Barcelos, RO dos Santos - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
Anurans, along with urodeles and caecilians are the extant representatives of the clade
Lissamphibia. Nowadays, lissamphibians are widely distributed in all continents, except …

In the shadow of dinosaurs: Late Cretaceous frogs are distinct components of a widespread tetrapod assemblage across Argentinean and Chilean Patagonia

FS Lara, RO Gomez - Cretaceous Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Frogs (Anura) are nowadays common and abundant constituents of terrestrial and
freshwater ecosystems near globally and their fossil record shows that they were already …

Island Africa and vertebrate evolution: a review of data and working hypotheses

JC Rage*, E Gheerbrant - … of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract From mid-Cretaceous to Early Miocene, Africa was geographically isolated as a
gigantic island, the Island Africa. This considerably impacted local evolution of continental …

The first potential cordyliform (Squamata, Scincoidea) from India (uppermost Cretaceous–lowermost Paleocene): An African lizard clade brings possible implications …

R Yadav, S Bajpai, AS Maurya, A Čerňanský - Cretaceous Research, 2023 - Elsevier
We here report on a new lizard from the Deccan intertrappean strata (uppermost Cretaceous–
lowermost Paleocene) of the recently discovered Kesavi locality, central India. The material …

Fossil lizards from the Deccan intertrappean beds (latest Cretaceous/earliest Paleocene) of lower Narmada basin, Malwa Plateau, India

R Yadav, S Bajpai, AS Maurya, A Čerňanský - Historical Biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We here report on the first lizard fossils from the Deccan intertrappean strata (latest
Cretaceous/Palaeocene) exposed at Kesavi, District Dhar in the Malwa Plateau of lower …

A new genus and species of frog from the Kem Kem (Morocco), the second neobatrachian from Cretaceous Africa

A Lemierre, DC Blackburn - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Neobatrachia, a clade representing the majority of extant anuran diversity, is thought to have
emerged and diversified during the Cretaceous. Most of the early diversification of …

[图书][B] Leaving Gondwana: the changing position of the Indian subcontinent in the Global Faunal Network

TJD Halliday, PA Holroyd, E Gheerbrant, GVR Prasad… - 2020 - Springer
The paleogeographic history of the Indian subcontinent is unique among Earth's
landmasses. From being part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana for most of the …

Historical background of Late Cretaceous dinosaur studies and associated biota in India

A Khosla, SG Lucas, A Khosla, SG Lucas - Late Cretaceous dinosaur …, 2020 - Springer
This chapter summarizes the record of dinosaur (skeletal and nests) studies in India from
1828 to 2020. For the last 180 years, strata of the Lameta Formation have been extensively …

Cretaceous mammals of India–Stratigraphic distribution, diversity and intercontinental affinities

GVR Prasad, O Verma, A Sahni… - Journal of Palaeosciences, 2021 - jpsonline.co.in
Extensive research carried out on the Cretaceous deposits of Laurasia has revealed an
overwhelming presence of eutherian, metatherian and multituberculate groups of mammals …

Geology and Stratigraphy of Microbiota-Bearing Intertrappean Beds of the Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh, India

A Khosla, O Verma, S Kania, S Lucas - Microbiota from the Late …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Four stratigraphic sections (Jhilmili, Ghat Parasia, Shriwas (= Shiraj) well and,
Government well) in the Chhindwara area, Madhya Pradesh, were chosen as part of the …