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 …

New information on the Eocene frog Thaumastosaurus (Anura, Pyxicephalidae) from the Phosphorites du Quercy, France

GL Georgalis, E Prendini, Z Roček - Zoological Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present new disarticulated cranial elements of the Eocene frog Thaumastosaurus from
several localities in the Phosphorites du Quercy, France, providing novel information about …

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 …

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 …

Youngest Interatheriinae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from lower Pliocene Tunuyán Formation (Mendoza, Argentina)

B Vera, CO Romano - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
After several years of intense fieldwork in the area of Huayquerías del Este, northern
Mendoza (Argentina), the results account for more than 1,000 specimens and 67 taxa of …

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 …