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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.
Triadobatrachus is an extinct genus of salientian frog-like amphibians, including only one known species, Triadobatrachus massinoti. It is the oldest member of the frog lineage known, and an excellent example of a transitional fossil. It lived during the Early Triassic about 250 million years ago, in what is now Madagascar.
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.
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 ...
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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.
The Amphibians of Western Australia are represented by two families of frogs. Of the 78 species found, most within the southwest , 38 are unique to the state. 15 of the 30 genera of Australian frogs occur; from arid regions and coastlines to permanent wetlands.
Limnodynastes (commonly known as the Australian swamp frogs) is a genus of frog native to Australia, southern New Guinea and some Torres Strait Islands. They are ground-dwelling frogs, with no toe pads.