First fossil frog from Antarctica: Implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Mörs, Thomas, Reguero, Marcelo Alfredo, Vasilyan, Davit
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature
• Subjects: Anura; Calyptocephalellidae; Eocene; Antarctica; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Seymour; Seymour Island; Suecia; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/136224

Cenozoic ectothermic continental tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) have not been documented previously from Antarctica, in contrast to all other continents. Here we report a fossil ilium and an ornamented skull bone that can be attributed to the Recent, South American, anuran family Calyptocephale...