A new pipine frog from an Eocene crater lake in North-Central Tanzania

Palaeontology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 723-737

  Báez, Ana Maria ^a   Harrison, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Eocene; Hymeno chirini; Phylogeny; Pipidae; Pipinae; Singidella gen. nov.

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; FROG; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MAHENGE MOUNTAINS; MOROGORO [TANZANIA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

ANURA; HYMENOCHIRUS; PIPA; PIPIDAE; PIPINAE; PSEUDHYMENOCHIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 22444451277     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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