Hyla cinerea
The American green tree frog is a common arboreal species of New World tree frog belonging to the family Hylidae. This nocturnal insectivore is moderately sized and has a bright green to reddish-brown coloration. Sometimes, light yellowish spots are present on the dorsum. Commonly found in the central and southeastern United States, the frog lives in open canopy forests with permanent water sources and abundant vegetation. The American green tree frog is strictly aquatic during the hibernating and mating seasons. When defending its territory, the frog either emits aggressive call signals or resolves to grapple with intruders, seldom leading to injury or death. To avoid predation, the frog will leap into the water or jump into the treetops.
Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- American green tree frogPBDB
- 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 9.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Hyla cinerea 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
3 occurrences- Miocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Hyla cinerea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hyla cinerea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hyla cinerea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
264 taxa- Agelaius phoeniceus2 sites
- Ambystoma tigrinum2 sites
- Blarina carolinensis2 sites
- Colaptes auratus2 sites
- Corvus ossifragus2 sites
- Cricetidae2 sites
- Cryptotis parva2 sites
- Cyanocitta cristata2 sites
- Dasypus bellus2 sites
- Falco sparverius2 sites
- Gastrophryne carolinensis2 sites
- Hemiauchenia macrocephala2 sites
- Hyla gratiosa2 sites
- Megascops asio2 sites
- Myotis2 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus2 sites
- Passerculus sandwichensis2 sites
- Peromyscus polionotus2 sites
- Podilymbus podiceps2 sites
- Porzana carolina2 sites
- Rana2 sites
- Rana catesbeiana2 sites
- Rana pipiens2 sites
- Scalopus aquaticus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hyla cinerea, 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
3 references- Late Pliocene anurans from Inglis 1A, Citrus County, Florida1
- Herpetofauna of the WaKeeney local fauna (lower Pliocene: Clarendonian) of Trego County, Kansas1
- The Pleistocene amphibians of Pit II, Arredondo, Florida1
Each of the 3 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. 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 content2
Picture of Hyla cinerea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Brian Gratwicke
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Hyla cinerea · UF:Herp:123473
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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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. (Schneider 1799)