The earliest direct evidence of frogs in wet tropical forests from Cretaceous Burmese amber

Frogs are a familiar and diverse component of tropical forests around the world. Yet there is little direct evidence from the fossil record for the antiquity of this association. We describe four fossil frog specimens from mid-Cretaceous (~99 mya) amber deposits from Kachin State, Myanmar for which...

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Autores principales: Xing, Lida, Stanley, Edward L., Bai, Ming, Blackburn, David C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6002357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29904068
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26848-w

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6002357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29904068
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26848-w

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