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First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia

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  • 1. Department of Palaeobiology,Swedish Museum of Natural History,P.O.Box 50007,SE-104 05,Stockholm,Sweden
  • 2. Instituto Antártico Argentino, Campus Miguelete, 25 de Mayo 1151, 3° piso B1650HMK, San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 3. Department of Geosciences,University of Fribourg, Chemin du musée 6, 1700,Fribourg,Switzerland

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Mörs, Thomas, Reguero, Marcelo, Vasilyan, Davit (2020): First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia. Scientific Reports 10 (5051): 1-11, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61973-5

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