Discoglossidae

The Alytidae are a family of primitive frogs. Their common name is painted frogs or midwife toads. Most are endemic to Europe, but three species occur in northwest Africa, and a species formerly thought to be extinct is found in Israel.

Discoglossidae

Christian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
painted frogPBDB
Sits inside
AnuraPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 227 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 216 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 216 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 216 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 216 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 216 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 216 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 40 of 216 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 216 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 216 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 216 occurrencesMiocene — about 74 of 216 occurrencesPliocene — about 26 of 216 occurrencesPleistocene — about 46 of 216 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 4 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 3 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 4 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 21 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 12 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 44 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 92 occurrences227.3 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

216 occurrences of Discoglossidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

216 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

50 formations

Bissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EBissekty — 40.70°N, 72.60°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EProlemais — 40.50°N, 21.74°EProlemais — 40.46°N, 21.78°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.17°N, 10.10°ESpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°EMorrison — 41.89°N, 106.00°WMorrison — 40.50°N, 109.17°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WForest Marble — 51.87°N, 1.27°WForest Marble — 50.71°N, 2.78°WForest Marble — 50.68°N, 2.66°WSajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°ELaa — 48.37°N, 16.35°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°ELefkon — 41.18°N, 23.42°ELefkon — 40.78°N, 24.03°EKomnina — 40.43°N, 21.80°EPui Beds — 45.49°N, 23.09°EKhilok — 50.68°N, 107.92°EEl Castellar — 40.67°N, 0.67°WGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.02°EMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WTwin Mountains — 32.27°N, 97.91°WPaluxy — 32.22°N, 98.20°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WVitoria — 42.66°N, 2.63°WLower Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EJudith River — 49.10°N, 109.50°W

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The named rock units Discoglossidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 108 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discoglossidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Discoglossidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,598 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 182 sites for Discoglossidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

103 references

Each of the 216 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 91 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Discoglossidae

Credit
Christian Fischer
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Discoglossidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Günther 1859