JournalofSouthAmericanEarthSciences55(2014)133e140
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JournalofSouthAmericanEarthSciences
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Evidenceofagianthelmetedfrog(Australobatrachia,
Calyptocephalellidae)fromEocenelevelsoftheMagallanesBasin,
southernmostChile
a,*b~a,c
RodrigoA.Otero,PaulinaJimenez-Huidobro,SergioSoto-Acuna,
~d
RobertoE.Yury-Yanez
a
RedPaleontologicaU-Chile,LaboratoriodeOntogeniayFilogenia,DepartamentodeBiología,FacultaddeCiencias,UniversidaddeChile,LasPalmeras
3425,Santiago,Chile
bDepartmentofBiologicalSciences,UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,AlbertaT6G2E9,Canada
c
AreadePaleontología,MuseoNacionaldeHistoriaNatural,Casilla787,Santiago,Chile
d
LaboratoriodeZoologíadeVertebrados,DepartamentodeCienciasEcologicas,FacultaddeCiencias,UniversidaddeChile,LasPalmeras3425,Santiago,
Chile
articleinfoabstract
Articlehistory:ThefossilrecordoffrogsfromSouthAmericahasimproveddramaticallyinrecentyears.Herewe
Received27April2014describeadistalfragmentofalarge-sizedhumerusrecoveredfromthemiddleetoeupperEoceneof
Accepted28June2014southernmostChile.Thelargedistallylocatedventralcondyle,andthepresenceoftwoepicondyles
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