Systematic status of the mid-tertiary neobatrachian frog calyptocephalella can queli from Patagonia (Argentina), with comments on the evolution of the genus

Ameghiniana

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-125

  Muzzopappa, Paula ^a   Baez, Ana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Austral forests; Australobatrachia; Colhuehuapian; Deseadan; Gondwana; Myobatrachoidea; Sarmiento formation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FROG; GONDWANA; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MIOCENE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEONTOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TERTIARY;

ARGENTINA; CHUBUT; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANURA; CAUDIVERBERA; CAUDIVERBERA CAUDIVERBERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NEOBATRACHIA; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 68949099234     PISSN: 00027014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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