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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.
Michael J. Tyler, Margaret Davies and Angus A. Martin Australian frogs of the Leptodactylid genus Uperoleia Gray CSIRO, Melbourne (1981) Michael J. Tyler, Margaret Davies and A. A. Martin Frog fauna of the Northern Territory : new distributional records and the description of a new species Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide (1981)
Beelzebufo (/ b iː ˌ ɛ l z ɪ ˈ b juː f oʊ / or / ˌ b iː l z ə ˈ b juː f oʊ /) is an extinct genus of hyloid frog from the Late Cretaceous Berivotra and Maevarano Formations of Madagascar. [1] The type species is B. ampinga, and common names assigned by the popular media to B. ampinga include devil frog, [2] devil toad, [3] and the ...
Pages in category "Fossils of Australia" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Acadagnostus;
The southern gastric-brooding frog was discovered in 1972 and described in 1973, [2] though there is one publication suggesting that the species was discovered in 1914 (from the Blackall Range). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Rheobatrachus silus was restricted to the Blackall Range and Conondale Ranges in southeast Queensland , north of Brisbane , between ...
Rheobatrachus, whose members are known as the gastric-brooding frogs or platypus frogs, is a genus of extinct ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia. The genus consisted of only two species, the southern and northern gastric-brooding frogs, both of which became extinct in the mid-1980s.
Australia separated from Gondwana 99 Ma, and initially remained warm and humid with rainforest vegetation. Inland Australia had systems of rivers and lakes with abundant wildlife. Fossil birds, platypus, frogs and snakes are present from this period. From 30 Ma there was a period of global cooling, and from 15 Ma the Antarctic ice sheet formed.
There is extensive evidence for thylacines in mainland Australia from paleontology and rock art. [17] The scientific consensus is that thylacines were extirpated from mainland Australia around 1277-1229 BCE, [7] although the Thylacine Museum records several alleged mainland sightings from the 19th and 20th centuries. [18]