Fossil frogs (Anura) from Shanwang (Middle Miocene; Shandong Province, China)

Geobios

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 499-518

  Roček, Zbyněk ^a,b,c   Dong, Liping ^c   Přikryl, Tomáš ^a,b   Sun, Chengkai ^d   Tan, Jin ^e   Wang, Yuan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d Shandong Museum   (China)

^e Shanwang National Geopark   (China)

Author keywords

Anura; Bufo; East Asia; Macropelobates; Neogene; Rana; Tadpole

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOTA; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FROG; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; SHANDONG;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFONIDAE; PELOBATIDAE; PELOBATOIDEA; PIPOIDEA; RANIDAE;

EID: 80054985213     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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