55-Million-Year-Old Tree Frog Fossil Unearthed in Australia

Jun 20, 2025 - 16:45

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55-Million-Year-Old Tree Frog Fossil Unearthed in Australia

An artist’s reconstruction of Litoria tylerantiqua (right) and the previously-described species Platyplectrum casca (left) from Murgon, south-eastern Queensland. Image: Samantha Yabsley, https://www.instagram.com/s.h.y_art.

The discovery of Litoria tylerantiqua suggests that Australian treefrogs (pelodryadids) were present in Australia by the Early Eocene, when the continent was still connected to Antarctica and South America as the last remnants of the supercontinent Gondwana.

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