Alex WildThanks to UT herpetologist Tom Devitt, last week I was able to photograph the unusual Texas Cliff Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus), which passes through the tadpole stage within the egg, hatching as a fully-formed frog.
katch wreck"Time-calibrated molecular #phylogenies have suggested that this genus originated in the #Caribbean in the Early #Oligocene and then colonized Central America in the Middle #Miocene. Here, we describe the first records of pre-Quaternary fossils referred to #Eleutherodactylus from Florida."
Fossil frogs (Eleutherodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) from Florida suggest overwater dispersal from the Caribbean by the Late Oligocene
Abstract. Establishment of extant terrestrial vertebrate faunas in North America was influenced by a set of factors associated with temporal changes in climate