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Post-Gondwana Africa and the vertebrate history of the Angolan Atlantic Coast 后冈瓦纳非洲和安哥拉大西洋沿岸的脊椎动物历史

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/J.MMV.2016.74.24

L. Jacobs, M. Polcyn, O. Mateus, A. Schulp, A. Gonçalves, Maria Luísa Morais

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引用次数: 9

Early to middle Pleistocene occurrences of Litoria, Neobatrachus and Pseudophryne (Anura) from the Nullarbor Plain, Australia: first frogs from the “frog-free zone” 澳大利亚纳拉伯平原早至中更新世Litoria、Neobatrachus和Pseudophryne (Anura)的出现:来自“无蛙区”的第一批蛙类

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/J.MMV.2016.74.28

M. Tyler, G. Prideaux

{"title":"Early to middle Pleistocene occurrences of Litoria, Neobatrachus and Pseudophryne (Anura) from the Nullarbor Plain, Australia: first frogs from the “frog-free zone”","authors":"M. Tyler, G. Prideaux","doi":"10.24199/J.MMV.2016.74.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24199/J.MMV.2016.74.28","url":null,"abstract":"Tyler, M.J. and Prideaux, G.J. 2016. Early to middle Pleistocene occurrences of Litoria, Neobatrachus and Pseudophryne (Anura) from the Nullarbor Plain, Australia: first frogs from the “frog-free zone”. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 74: 403–408. Frogs have the least understood fossil record of all major vertebrate groups in Australia. Here we report on pelvic remains of three Pleistocene frog species from the Nullarbor Plain, a large region of Australia where no living or fossil frogs had previously been discovered. One ilium, characterised by a small acetabular fossa with an indistinct peripheral rim, a broad dorsal prominence and enlarged supra-acetabular zone, is recognised here as representative of a new species of hylid, Litoria lundeliusi sp. nov. Three other ilia bear the hallmark generic attributes of the small myobatrachid Pseudophryne, two species of which co-occur today over much of southwestern Australia. A second larger myobatrachid is the best represented of the three species, and its ilial morphology matches that of the extant Neobatrachus sudelli. All three species were present in the early Pleistocene, but only N. sudelli is recorded in the middle Pleistocene. The loss of Litoria and Pseudophryne would be consistent with the disappearance of significant bodies of free water from the region, but the cause of the apparent extirpation of N. sudelli, which inhabits arid parts of Australia today, remains a mystery.","PeriodicalId":53647,"journal":{"name":"Memoirs of Museum Victoria","volume":"113 1","pages":"403-408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76804898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Organic geochemistry of a high-latitude Lower Cretaceous lacustrine sediment sample from the Koonwarra Fossil Beds, South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia 澳大利亚维多利亚州南吉普斯兰Koonwarra化石层高纬度下白垩世湖相沉积物有机地球化学研究

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/J.MMV.2016.74.07

M. Tuite, D. Flannery, K. Williford

引用次数: 7

The Macropodidae (Marsupialia) of the early Pleistocene Nelson Bay Local Fauna, Victoria, Australia 澳大利亚维多利亚尼尔森湾早更新世地方动物群的巨足类(有袋目)

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/J.MMV.2016.74.18

K. Piper

引用次数: 2

The upper dentition and relationships of the enigmatic Australian Cretaceous mammal Kollikodon ritchiei 神秘的澳大利亚白垩纪哺乳动物Kollikodon ritchiei的上齿和关系

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/J.MMV.2016.74.10

Rebecca Pian, M. Archer, S. Hand, R. Beck, A. Cody

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引用次数: 12

Suction feeding preceded filtering in baleen whale evolution 在须鲸进化过程中，吸食先于过滤

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/J.MMV.2016.75.04

F. G. Marx, David P. Hocking, Travis Park, T. Ziegler, A. Evans, E. Fitzgerald

引用次数: 53

Two new species and a new record of hydroids (hydrozoa: hydroidolina) from Port Phillip, Australia 澳大利亚菲利浦港水螅类两新种及一新记录(水螅纲:水螅虫)

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/J.MMV.2016.75.01

J. Watson

引用次数: 0

Stingray diversification across the end-Cretaceous extinctions 黄貂鱼在白垩纪末期的多样化灭绝

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/J.MMV.2016.74.26

T. Bertozzi, Michael S. Y. Lee, S. Donnellan

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引用次数: 21

The Discovery Expedition sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) 海参(棘皮目:海参总科)

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2016.75.03

P. O’Loughlin, Elnaz Tavancheh, C. Harding

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引用次数: 2

A new specimen of Valdosaurus canaliculatus (Ornithopoda: Dryosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, England 英格兰怀特岛下白垩纪管状Valdosaurus canaliculatus新标本(鸟脚目:旱龙科)

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.24199/J.MMV.2016.74.04

P. Barrett

引用次数: 9