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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...
Autores principales: | Xing, Lida, Stanley, Edward L., Bai, Ming, Blackburn, David C. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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