Eopelobates

Eopelobates is an extinct genus of frogs in the family Pelobatidae. Closely related to the living European spadefoot toad, it is known from the Eocene of western North America, and the Eocene–Pliocene of Europe.

Eopelobates

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PelobatidaePBDB
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 79 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 4.16 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 3.55 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 8 of 43 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEocene — about 15 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 43 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 5 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–4.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences83.6 Mya4.16 Mya87 Mya2 Mya

43 occurrences of Eopelobates on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

43 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

18 formations

Lance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WChadron — 43.75°N, 102.67°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°ECambay Shale — 21.35°N, 73.07°EBorgloon — 50.85°N, 4.82°EBorgloon — 50.87°N, 4.98°EFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.21°WLower Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°EYalovach — 40.49°N, 69.70°EMission Valley — 32.90°N, 117.10°WKirtland — 36.30°N, 108.20°WLignite-Sandstone — 41.00°N, 26.82°EGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.02°EGreen River — 42.17°N, 109.42°W

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The named rock units Eopelobates has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eopelobates and its relatives

Eocene

Where Eopelobates and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,060 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Eopelobates, 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

27 references

Each of the 43 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. 15 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 Eopelobates

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

No 3D scan of Eopelobates was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itPelobatidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parker 1929