An overview of the ilium of anurans (Lissamphibia, Salientia), with a critical appraisal of the terminology and primary homology of main ilial features

RO Gómez, GF Turazzini - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The ilium has been considered a 'key'element in anuran paleontology, but its terminology is
inconsistent across the literature. Therefore, we here review the terminology used so far to …

Systematics of the neotropical genus Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 (Anura: Leptodactylidae): phylogeny, the relevance of non-molecular evidence, and species …

RO de Sá, T Grant, A Camargo, WR Heyer… - South American Journal …, 2014 - BioOne
A phylogeny of the species-rich clade of the Neotropical frog genus Leptodactylus sensu
stricto is presented on the basis of a total evidence analysis of molecular (mitochondrial and …

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 …

Comparative osteology of paradoxical frogs (Hylidae: Pseudae) with comments on diagnostic features, evolutionary trends and potential aquatic adaptations

GF Turazzini, RO Gómez - Zoologischer Anzeiger, 2023 - Elsevier
Paradoxical frogs (Pseudae) are mostly aquatic anurans thriving in tropical and subtropical
South America that have long attracted attention because of their gigantic tadpoles, but also …

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 old Budgett frog: an articulated skeleton of an Early Pliocene Lepidobatrachus (Anura, Ceratophryidae) from western Argentina

GF Turazzini, RO Gómez - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The South American horned frogs or 'escuerzos'(Ceratophryidae) are among
the best-known neobatrachians and comprise the genera Chacophrys, Ceratophrys, and …

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 …

New vertebrates from the Ituzaingó Formation (Late Miocene of Entre Ríos Province, Argentina), including first records of Leptodactylus (Amphibia, Anura) and …

D Brandoni, GI Schmidt, P Bona, J Tarquini… - Historical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Late Miocene vertebrate fauna from the Entre Ríos Province, Argentina,
comes from two units: the marine Paraná Formation and the Lower Member of Ituzaingó …

New fossil species of the extant genus Lepidobatrachus (Anura, Ceratophryidae) from the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene of central Argentina

L Nicoli - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT I describe a new fossil species of the extant anuran genus Lepidobatrachus
from late Miocene-early Pliocene sediments of central Argentina. This species was …

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 …