Publisher © Czech Geological Survey, ISSN: 2336-5757 (online), 0514-8057 (print)

Fossil tadpoles from Shanwang (Early to Middle Miocene; Shandong Province, China)

 

Zbyněk Roček, Liping Dong, Tomáš Přikryl, Chengkai Sun, Junde Li, Yuan Wang

Geoscience Research Reports 43, 2010 (GRR for 2009), pages 160–162

Full text (PDF, 0.17 MB)

 

Abstract

The morphological description of Early to Middle Miocene tadpoles from Shanwang Basin (Shandong Province, E China) is provided. On the basis of the body shape and association with adult individuals the studied tadpoles were assigned to the family Ranidae. This series of tadpoles is the first evidence of relatively complete larval and metamorphic development of nonpipoid anuran amphibians.