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Publications

2024

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Du, B., Zhang, J., Gómez, R.O., Dong, L., Zhang, M., Lei, X., Li, A., Dai, S. A cretaceous frog with eggs from northwestern China provides fossil evidence for sexual maturity preceding skeletal maturity in anurans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20232320. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2320

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Garberoglio, F.F., Gómez, R.O., Caldwell, M.W. New record of aquatic snakes (Squamata, Palaeophiidae) from the Paleocene of South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2305892. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2305892

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Gómez, R.O., Ventura, T., Turazzini, G.F., Marivaux, L., Andrade Flores, R., Boscaini, A, Fernández-Monescillo, M, Mamani Quispe, B., Prámparo, M.B., Fauquette, S., Martin, C., Münch, P., Pujos, F., Antoine, P-O.* A new early Water Frog (Telmatobius) from the Miocene of the Bolivian Altiplano. Papers in Palaeontology 10: e1543. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1543.

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2023

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Jansen, O., Gómez, R.O., Fouquet, A., Marivaux, L., Salas-Gismondi, R., Antoine, P-O. First Eocene–Miocene anuran fossils from Peruvian Amazonia: insights into Neotropical frog evolution and diversity. Papers in Palaeontology 9:e1542. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1542

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Pérez-Ben, C. M., Lires, A.I., Gómez, R.O. Frog limbs in deep time: is jumping locomotion at the roots of the anuran Bauplan?. Paleobiology 50:96–107. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2023.23

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Turazzini, G.F., Gómez, R.O. Comparative osteology of paradoxical frogs (Hylidae: Pseudae) with comments on diagnostic features, evolutionary trends and potential aquatic adaptations. Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology 303:47–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2023.01.011

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2022
 

Turazzini, G.F., Gómez, R.O. A new old Budgett frog: an articulated skeleton of an Early Pliocene Lepidobatrachus (Anura, Ceratophryidae) from western Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 42:e2207092. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2207092

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Leardi, J.M., Farina, M. Gómez, R.O., Marsicano, CA. Paleoherpetología en la Argentina: 150 años de historia. UBA-FCEN. Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 22:226–234. https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.09.06.2021.349
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De Mendoza, R., Gómez, R.O. Ecomorphology of the tarsometatarsus of waterfowl (Anseriformes) based on geometric morphometrics and its application to fossils. The Anatomical Record 305:3243–3253. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24891 
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Suazo Lara, F., Gómez, R.O. In the shadow of dinosaurs: Late Cretaceous frogs are distinct components of a widespread tetrapod assemblage across Argentinean and Chilean Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 131:105085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105085
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2021

Apesteguía, S., Garberoglio, F.F., Gómez, R.O. Earliest Tuatara relative (Lepidosauria: Sphenodontinae) from southern continents. Ameghiniana 58:416–441. https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.13.07.2021.3442
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Gómez, R.O., Lois-Milevicich, J. Why the long beak? Phylogeny, convergence, feeding ecology, and evolutionary allometry shaped the skull of the Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus (Icteridae). Journal of Morphology 282:1587–1603.

 

https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21408

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Lois-Milevicich, J., Gómez, R.O., Ursino, C.A., Lois, N.A., de la Colina, A. Rapid and low-cost molecular sexing of a corvid songbird using a single protocol with two universal primer sets. Ardeola 68:501–510. https://doi.org/10.13157/arla.68.2.2021.sc1

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Gómez, R.O., Turazzini, G.F. The fossil record and phylogeny of South American horned frogs (Anura, Ceratophryidae), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19:91–130. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2021.1892845

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2020

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De Mendoza, R, Gómez, R.O., Tambussi, C. The lacrimal/ectethmoid region of waterfowl (Aves, Anseriformes): Phylogenetic signal and major evolutionary patterns. Journal of Morphology 281:1486–1500. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21265

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Gómez, R.O., Lois-Milevicich, J. Phylogenetic signal in the skull of cowbirds (Icteridae) assessed by multivariate and cladistic approaches. Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology 286:52–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2020.03.005

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2019

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Gómez, R.O., Garberoglio, F.F., Rougier, G.W. A new Late Cretaceous snake from Patagonia: phylogeny and trends in body size evolution of madtsoiid snakes. Comptes Rendus Palevol 18:771-781.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2019.09.003

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Garberoglio, F.F., Apesteguía, S., Simões, T.R., Palci, A., Gómez, R.O., Nydam, R.L., Larsson, H.C.E., Lee, M.S.Y., Caldwell, M.W. New Skulls and Skeletons of the Cretaceous Legged Snake Najash, and the Evolution of the Modern Snake Body Plan. Science Advances 5(11):1-8. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax5833

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Gómez, R.O., Lires, A.I. High ecomorphological diversity among Early Cretaceous frogs from a large subtropical wetland of Iberia. Comptes Rendus Palevol 18:711-723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2019.07.005

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Pérez-Ben, C. M., Turazzini, G.F., Gómez, R.O. A Last Glacial anuran assemblage from the inland Pampas of South America provides insights on climate and environments during the MIS 3. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1627365

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Pérez-Ben, C. M., Gómez, R.O., Báez, A.M. A new Pliocene true toad (Anura: Bufonidae): first record of an extinct species from South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1576183

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Gómez, R.O., Pérez-Ben, C. M. Fossils Reveal Long-Term Continuous and Parallel Innovation in the Sacro-Caudo-Pelvic Complex of the Highly Aquatic Pipid Frogs. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 7:56. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00056

 

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Báez, A.M., Gómez, R.O. Redescription of the overlooked basal frog Wealdenbatrachus reveals increased diversity among Early Cretaceous anurans. Cretaceous Research 99:14–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.02.006

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Garberoglio, F.F., Gómez, R.O., Simões T.R., Caldwell, M.W., Apesteguía, S. The evolution of the axial skeleton intercentrum system in snakes revealed by new data from the Cretaceous snakes Dinilysia and Najash. Scientific Reports 9:1276. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36979-9

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Garberoglio, F.F., Gómez, R.O., Apesteguía, S., Caldwell, M.W.; Sánchez, M.L.; Veiga, G. A new specimen with skull and vertebrae of Najash rionegrina (Lepidosauria: Ophidia) from the early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17:1533–1550. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1534288

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2018

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Pérez Ben, C.M., Gómez, R.O. Morphological integration and evolution of the skull roof in temnospondyl amphibians. Journal of Iberian Geology 45:341–351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-018-0088-9

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Báez, A.M., Gómez, R.O. Dealing with homoplasy: osteology and phylogenetic relationships of the bizarre neobatrachian frog Baurubatrachus pricei from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16:279–308. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1287130

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2017

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Stefanini, M.I., Gómez, R.O. Particular comportamiento de nidificación en una pareja de Cacholote castaño (Pseudoseisura lophotes). Nuestras Aves 62:63–65.

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Gómez, R.O., Regueira, E., O’Donohoe, M.E.A., Hermida, G.N.. Delayed osteogenesis and calcification in a large true toad with a comparative survey of the timing of skeletal ossification in anurans. Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology 267:101–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2017.03.002

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2016

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Turazzini, G.F., Taglioretti, M.L., Gómez, R.O. First fossil record of the South American frog genus Odontophrynus Reinhardt & Lütken (Anura: Neobatrachia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36:e1228657. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2017.1228657

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Báez, A.M., Gómez, R.O. Revision of the skeletal morphology of Eodiscoglossus santonjae, an Early Cretaceous frog from northeastern Spain, with comments on its phylogenetic placement. Fossil Imprint (prev. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Natural History Series) 72:67–77

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Gómez, R.O. A new pipid frog from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia and early evolution of crown-group Pipidae. Cretaceous Research 62:52–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2016.02.006

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Lires, A.I., Soto, I.M., Gómez, R.O. Walk before you jump: new insights on early frog locomotion from the oldest known salientian. Paleobiology 42:612–623. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2016.11

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Stefanini, M.I., Gómez, R.O., Tambussi, C.P. A new species of the Pleistocene furnariid Pseudoseisuropsis (Aves, Passeriformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36:e1100630. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2016.1100630

 

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Gómez, R.O., Fernández, D.E. ¿Cuánto puede pasar en 4.500.000.000 años? En: Ignacio María Soto, Giselle Adriana Abruzzese (Eds.), A la Luz de la Evolución: Jornada de Biología Evolutiva 2016:28–29.

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Pérez, D.E., Gómez, R.O., Lehmann, O.E.R., D’Amato, M. El vuelo del Archaeopteryx. En: Ignacio María Soto, Giselle Adriana Abruzzese (Eds.), A la Luz de la Evolución: Jornada de Biología Evolutiva 2016:21–23.

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Gómez, R.O., Turazzini, G.F. An overview of the ilium of anurans (Lissamphibia: Salientia) with a critical appraisal of the terminology and primary homology of main ilial features. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36:e1030023. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2015.1030023

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2015

 

Gómez, R.O., Lires, A.I. Dieta del Gavilán Mixto (Parabuteo unicinctus) en un humedal de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Nuestras Aves 60:97–101.

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2014

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Pérez Ben, C.M., Gómez, R.O., Báez, A.M. Intraspecific morphological variation and its implications in the taxonomic status of Bufo pisanoi, a Pliocene anuran from eastern Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:767–773. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.839452

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Apesteguía, S., Gómez, R.O., Rougier, G.W. The youngest South American rhynchocephalian, a survivor of the K/Pg extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281:20140811. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0811

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2013

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Gómez, R.O., Stefanini, M.I., Turazzini, G.F.. Carotenismo en un ejemplar de churrinche (Pyrocephalus rubinus). Nuestras Aves 58:46–48. 2013.

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Gómez, R.O., Pérez Ben, C.M., Stefanini, M.I.. Oldest record of Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 (Anura, Leptodactylidae) from the Early Pliocene of South American Pampas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:1321–1327. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.771779

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2012

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Apesteguía, S., Gómez, R.O., Rougier, G.W. A basal sphenodontian (Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic of Patagonia: New insights on the phylogeny and biogeography of Gondwanan rhynchocephalians. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166:342–360. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00837.x

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Báez, A.M., Gómez, R.O., Taglioretti, M.L. The archaic ilial morphology of an enigmatic pipid frog from the Upper Pleistocene of the South American pampas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:304–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.637591

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Báez, A.M., Gómez, R.O., Ribeiro L.C., Martinelli A.G., Teixeira V.A., Ferraz, M.L. The diverse Cretaceous neobatrachian fauna of South America: Uberabatrachus carvalhoi, a new frog from the Maastrichtian Marília Formation, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gondwana Research 22:1141–1150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2012.02.021

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2011

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Gómez, R.O. , Báez, A.M., Muzzopappa, P. A new helmeted hyloid (Anura: Calyptocephalellidae) from an Eocene subtropical lake in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31:50–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2011.539654

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Gómez, R.O. A snake dentary from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Journal of Herpetology 45:230–233. https://doi.org/10.1670/10-048.1

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2010

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Rougier, G.W., Gaetano, L., Drury, B.R., Colella, R., Gómez, R.O., Paez Arango, N. A review of the Mesozoic mammalian record of South America. En: Calvo, J., Porfiri, J.D., González Riga, B., Dos Santos, D. (Eds.), Paleontología y Dinosaurios desde América Latina. Ediunc, Mendoza:195–214.

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2009

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Báez, A.M., Moura, G.J.B. de., y Gómez, R.O. Anurans from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of northeastern Brazil: implications for the early divergence of neobatrachians. Cretaceous Research 30:829–846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2009.01.002

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2008

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Gómez, R.O., Báez, A.M., Rougier, G.W. An Anilioid snake from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 29:481–488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2008.01.002

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2007

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Gómez, R.O. Morfología vertebral en serpientes: el aporte de los caracteres continuos en la construcción de filogenias. Darwiniana 45, suplemento:15–17.

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