Pleistocene frogs from the darling downs, southeastern queensland, and their palaeoenvironmental significance

Alcheringa

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 171-182

  Price, Gilbert J ^a   Tyler, Michael J ^b   Cooke, Bernard N ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Darling Downs; Frog; Jimbour Creek; Kings Creek; Kyarranus; Limnodynastes; Myobatrachidae; Neobatrachus; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FROG; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DARLING DOWNS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

ANURA; HYLIDAE; KYARRANUS; LIMNODYNASTES; LIMNODYNASTES SPENCERI; LIMNODYNASTES TASMANIENSIS; MYOBATRACHIDAE; NEOBATRACHUS; NEOBATRACHUS SUDELLI;

EID: 19344369804     PISSN: 03115518     EISSN: 17520754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03115510508619566     Document Type: Article

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