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 …

Relict duck-billed dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in subantarctic Chile

J Alarcón-Muñoz, AO Vargas, HP Püschel… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
In the dusk of the Mesozoic, advanced duck-billed dinosaurs (Hadrosauridae) were so
successful that they likely outcompeted other herbivores, contributing to declines in dinosaur …

New records of Theropoda from a Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) locality in the Magallanes-Austral Basin, Patagonia, and insights into end Cretaceous …

SN Davis, S Soto-Acuña, RA Fernández… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
The end Cretaceous mass extinction was marked by a dramatic change in biodiversity, and
the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs. To understand the diversity of dinosaur clades prior …

Fossil vertebrates from the Cerro Fortaleza Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

FL Agnolín, GÁ Herrera, MA Rolando, M Motta… - Cretaceous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cerro Fortaleza Formation is a stratigraphic unit that crops out near the Cerro
Fortaleza hill, northwestern Santa Cruz province, Argentina. This unit has been well-known …

First Eocene–Miocene anuran fossils from Peruvian Amazonia: insights into Neotropical frog evolution and diversity

O Jansen, RO Gómez, A Fouquet… - Papers in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anurans are one of the most diverse vertebrate groups, particularly in Amazonia, where
species richness exceeds that of anywhere else. Amazonian frogs belong to three main …

A new early water frog (Telmatobius) from the Miocene of the Bolivian Altiplano

RO Gómez, T Ventura, GF Turazzini… - Papers in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the new frog Telmatobius achachila sp. nov. from the late Middle to earliest
Late Miocene of Achiri, based on a partial skeleton found at 3960 m above sealevel in the …

A new species of Baurubatrachus (Anura, Neobatrachia) from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina Formation of Brazil furnishes evidence on the diversity of this bizarre …

P Muzzopappa, FV Iori, FP Muniz, AG Martinelli - Ameghiniana, 2022 - BioOne
In the present paper, we report new anuran remains recovered from strata referred to the
Adamantina Formation (Upper Cretaceous) cropping out near Catanduva city, São Paulo …

New small reptile remains from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia increase morphological diversity of sphenodontids (Lepidosauria)

FL Agnolín, AMA Rolando, NR Chimento… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sphenodontids are a group of reptiles that were diverse and global for much of the Mesozoic
but today they are only represented by the New Zealand tuatara. Here we describe new …

A microvertebrate assemblage from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru group, upper cretaceous) in São Paulo state, Brazil

RC Freitas, A Batezelli, FP Muniz, DC Ribeiro… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Adamantina Formation is the most extensive and taxonomically rich unit within
the Bauru Group (Upper Cretaceous). This unit is considered one of the most complete fossil …

A new fossil species of Calyptocephalella (Anura: Australobatrachia) from the Miocene of northern Patagonia: Novel evidence of the broad past diversity of the genus

L Nicoli, P Muzzopappa, N Espinoza… - Journal of South American …, 2022 - Elsevier
Calyptocephalella is nowadays only represented by the emblematic Chilean Helmeted
Water Toad C. gayi, restricted to water bodies of Central Chile. Numerous fossil remains …