Hyla arborea

The European tree frog is a small tree frog. As traditionally defined, it was found throughout much of Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but based on molecular genetic and other data several populations formerly included in it are now recognized as separate species, limiting the true European tree frog to Europe from France to Poland and Greece.

Hyla arborea

Stijn99 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
HylaPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 11 of 30 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 30 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.5–7.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.1–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–5.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–887 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence887 ka–443 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences443 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka13.3 Mya0 Mya

30 occurrences of Hyla arborea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

30 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

5 formations

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ESpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°EUnterer Travertin — 50.97°N, 11.35°ECapo Mannu dune complex — 40.03°N, 8.40°E

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The named rock units Hyla arborea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyla arborea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hyla arborea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

474 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Hyla arborea, 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

16 references

Each of the 30 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. 4 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Hyla arborea

Credit
Stijn99
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
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Specimen
Hyla arborea · UF:Herp:13889

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

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

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What may have been alongside itHyla through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)