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The leaf green tree frog (Litoria phyllochroa) is a species of tree frog common to forests of eastern Australia. Amphibians of Australia are limited to members of the order Anura, commonly known as frogs. All Australian frogs are in the suborder Neobatrachia, also known as the modern frogs, which make up the largest proportion of extant frog ...
Tiddalik, frog of southeast Australian legend who drank all the water in the land, and had to be made to laugh to regurgitate it Waang , Kulin trickster , culture hero and ancestral being, represented as a crow
Australobatrachia ("southern frogs") is a clade of frogs in the suborder Neobatrachia. It comprises three families of frogs with a Gondwanan distribution, being known from Chile, Australia, and New Guinea. Together, they form the sister group to the superfamily Hyloidea. [1] [2]
The most common fossil at the site are of crocodiles and giant trionychidae turtles which have become extinct in Australia. [4] Fossils from Murgon include the world's oldest songbirds, the oldest Australian marsupials, and the only fossils of leiopelmatid frogs outside of the Saint Bathans Fauna.
Palaeobatrachus was the first fossil frog to be described, [1] with the first species being P. diluvianus named by Goldfuss in 1831, originally as Rana diluviana from remains found in uppermost Oligocene strata near Bonn in Germany. It was later recognised as distinct and placed in the new separate genus Palaeobatrachus by Tschudi in 1839. [3]
The water-holding frog ascribed in modern times to Tiddalik is not found in the area of the legend's origin. It is likely that Tiddalik either refers to a different frog or is a memory of a time, 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, when the landscape was sufficiently different for the frog's range to extend to the South Gippsland.
The Whowie, a fearsome creature from southeast Australian Aboriginal mythology, resembled a seven-metre long goanna with a huge frog-shaped head and six powerful legs.He lived in a cave on the banks of the Murray River that extended deep beneath the ground, and his trampling on the riverbanks outside his cave formed the sandhills of the Riverina district.
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