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03-FEB-2014

5 cm tadpole with rear limbs developed and soft body impression preserved, Miocene, Shandong, China

Middle Miocene. Skin and eyes preserved. Shanwang, Shandong. Rocak et al. 2011.

"The early middle Miocene biota from the Shanwang locality in eastern China is one of the most diverse and well preserved in the world. This overall richness contrasts with its low diversity of anuran amphibians. The most abundant anurans are representatives of the family Ranidae, which remains the dominant group in the extant anuran fauna of China. Ranids are also represented by a developmental series of tadpoles, ranging from approximately Nieuwkoop-Faber (NF) stage 43 to a metamorphosing tadpole of NF stage 57. This is the first known developmental series of fossil non-pipoid Anura outside the Pelobatidae."


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