First finding of fish in the diet of a water-dwelling extinct frog Palaeobatrachus from the Upper Oligocene Fossil-Lagerstätte Enspel (Westerwald Mountains, Western Germany)

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-64

  Wuttke, Michael ^a   Poschmann, Markus ^a  

^a Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe RLP   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anura; Lacustrine environment; Palaeobatrachus sp.; Paleogene; Prey

Indexed keywords

CRATER LAKE; DIET; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION; FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; FROG; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MEROMICTIC LAKE; NEW RECORD; OLIGOCENE; PALEOBIOLOGY; PREY CAPTURE; STOMACH CONTENT; TAPHONOMY;

GERMANY; WESTERWALD;

ANURA; PALAEOBATRACHIDAE; PALAEOBATRACHUS;

EID: 77953396198     PISSN: 18671594     EISSN: 18671608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12549-009-0019-z     Document Type: Article

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