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sp. (MLP 86.VIII.1.1; 86.VIII.1.6) from
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,
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(
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)
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Three crania are partially preserved from Laguna Los Tres Reyes Locality (
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, locality 7) in the Partido of Gonzales Chaves, province of
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,
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; these were illustrated and attributed to
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by
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. The fossil-bearing sediments correspond to the upper part of the Fm. La Postrera, which was deposited during the Late PleistoceneHolocene (
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Fidalgo
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1991
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;
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).
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<emphasis id="86AEEAABFFB9FF8019B5FBA323915534" bold="true" box="[199,455,1124,1151]" pageId="19" pageNumber="56">Osteological features.</emphasis>
A nearly complete skull (
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86.
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.1.1 [
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: lam. I, fig. 1]) lacks the premaxillae. Its general morphology resembles that of extant
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. The greatest height of the skull is less than half of its greatest width. Cranial crests are absent. The squamosal otic plate is subquadrangular and extends to the level of the occipital condyles. Dentate vomers and neopalatines with conspicuous odontoid ridge are present.
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The skull of
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86.
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.1.5 (
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: lam. I, fig.1) is incomplete; the anterior portion is missing, along with and the posterior regions of both suspensoria. Although no general proportions can be estimated, the general structure of the preserved elements resemble those of extant
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<emphasis id="86AEEAABFFB9FF801A4EFAFA219E541C" box="[828,968,1341,1367]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="56">Ceratophrys</emphasis>
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. Cranial crests are absent. The squamosal otic plate is subquadrangular and reaches the level of the occipital condyles. The associated columella (
<figureCitation id="2CE12A3CFFB9FF801C46FAA627D95437" box="[1332,1423,1377,1404]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="21.[151,250,1554,1579]" captionTargetBox="[179,1407,171,1490]" captionTargetId="figure@21.[174,1414,170,1542]" captionTargetPageId="21" captionText="FIGURE 6. Quaternary fossils attributed to Ceratophrys. A, fossil columella (MLP 86.VIII.1.5) from Laguna Los Tres Reyes Locality, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, attributed Ceratophrys cf. ornata by Perí (1993). B, columella of C. cranwelli (FML 5475). CG, two incomplete skulls (CE) and a premaxilla (F, G) from Ñuapua, Bolivia, attributed to Ceratophrys cf. ornata by Vergnaud-Grazzini (1968). HK, fossils from the Arroyo Tapalqué locality, Buenos Aires, Argentina, listed as Ceratophrys sp. by Mercadal de Barrio &amp; Barrio (2002); HJ, MLP 86.III.25.150: squamosal (H) and right maxilla (I, J); K, MLP 86.III.25.151: frontoparietals. A,C, H, K, dorsal views; B, ventral views; D, J, lingual views; E, I, labial views. Abbreviations: as, angulosplenial; d, dentary; fp, frontoparietal; pp, premaxillary palatine process; ppa, discrete pars palatina absent; lc, lateral crest; mk, mentomeckelian; mop, material of preparation; mp, maxillary process of nasal; mpp, maxillary process ofpremaxilla; mps, socket that would receive the maxillary process of premaxilla; ncs, socket that would have received the ossification of the nasal cartilages; oc, occipital condyle; otc, otic capsule; pas, socket that would have received the ossifications of the planumantorbitale; pf, pars facialis; pof, space delimiting by the showed bone that corresponds to the postorbital fenestra; pp, pars palatina; ppa, discrete pars palatina absent; psa, portion of the bone that forms the parieto-squamosal arch; psf, parasphenoid; pt, pterygoid; ptp, pterygoid process; qj, quadratojugal; th, teeth; slw, squamosal lateral world; sop, squamosal otic plate; sf, space delimiting by the showed bone that corresponds to the subtemporal fenestra; v, vomer; vr, squamosal ventral ramus; zr, squamosal zygomatic ramus. Scale bar is 5 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3373087/files/figure.png" pageId="19" pageNumber="56">Fig. 6A</figureCitation>
), reported as preserved in situ by
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, now is disarticulated. It has two distinctive apophyses, as has been described (and observed) in
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<emphasis id="86AEEAABFFB9FF8018A7FA6E20365488" box="[469,608,1449,1475]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="56">C. cranwelli</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="86AEEAABFFB9FF801BE4FA6E21545488" box="[662,770,1449,1475]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="56">C. ornata</emphasis>
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(
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;
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). The vomers are dentate and the neopalatines have a conspicuous odontoid ridge.
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.1.6 (Perí 199a3: lam. I, fig. 3) is an incomplete skull composed of the interorbital region, a partial maxilla and pterygoid, the ossified planum antorbitale, and nasal cartilages and their associated dermal bones. No general proportions can be estimated. The morphological features of the remains resemble those of living
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<emphasis id="86AEEAABFFB9FF801C5BF9FE22EF573C" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="56">Ceratophrys</emphasis>
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. Dentate vomers and neopalatines with conspicuous odontoid ridge are present.
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<emphasis id="86AEEAABFFB9FF8019B5F946236F57D0" bold="true" box="[199,313,1665,1691]" pageId="19" pageNumber="56">Remarks.</emphasis>
All proposed or possible synapomorphies of
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and
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that can be observed in the preserved regions of the skulls from Laguna Tres Reyes are present in these remains (
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.1.1.—exostosis, non-pedicellate monocuspid teeth, squamosal-maxilla contact, parieto-squamosal arch; absence of pars palatina on anterior maxilla [
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]; robust, bar-shaped maxillary processes of nasals, postorbital fenestra [
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.1.5.—exostosis, non-pedicellate monocuspid teeth, squamosal-maxilla, parieto-squamosal arch, absence of pars palatina on anterior maxilla [
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]; robust, bar-shaped maxillary processes of nasals; postorbital fenestra [
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.1.6.—exostosis, non-pedicellate monocuspid teeth, squamosal-maxilla contact, absence of pars palatina on anterior maxilla [
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]; robust, bar-shaped maxillary processes of nasals [
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]).Thus, the generic assignment is well supported, but the remains cannot be identified to species.
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Perí (1993) described the columella associated with
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.1.5 to be monocapitate and on that basis, she attributed this fossil to
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. In contrast, I think that this columella is bicapitate. Given the observed intraspecific variation in this feature in
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(discussed above), I do not think this character is species specific.
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