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, Vasilyan, Davit
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Seymour; Seymour Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7181706/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32327670; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61973-5

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...