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Description: Photograph of the partial skeleton of a frog fossilized in amber along with an unidentified beetle. The specimen was found in mid-Cretaceous (~99 mya) amber deposits from the Kachin State of Myanmar. Scale bar equal 5 mm.
Title: Fossil frog in amber
Credit: Xing, L., Stanley, E.L., Bai, M. et al. The earliest direct evidence of frogs in wet tropical forests from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Sci Rep 8, 8770 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26848-w
Author: Xing, L., Stanley, E.L., Bai, M. et al
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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