Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5788267 | Palaeoworld | 2017 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The newly collected specimens from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian-early Campanian) Bostobe Formation at the Shakh-Shakh locality in the Northeast Aral Sea Region, Kazakhstan, increase the diversity of anurans in this stratigraphic unit and now two taxa can be recognized there: gobiatid Gobiates sp. and large anuran Discoglossidae indet. The faunal association of gobiatids + discoglossids is characteristic for Cenomanian-Campanian vertebrate assemblages of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan. In the Late Cretaceous of Asia, large sized anurans appeared in the Cenomanian and became a common element of anuran assemblages from the Turonian onwards, earlier than in North America where large sized anurans began dominating assemblages in the late Campanian.
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Authors
Pavel P. Skutschas, Veniamin V. Kolchanov,