Hylidae

Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as "tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic.

Hylidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
tree frogPBDB
Sits inside
HyloideaPBDB
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 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 167 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 167 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 167 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 167 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 61 of 167 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 167 occurrencesPleistocene — about 82 of 167 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 17 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 15 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 90 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

167 occurrences of Hylidae 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

167 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

33 formations

Valentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°E"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°EFort Randall — 43.10°N, 98.30°WFort Randall — 43.53°N, 99.13°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.68°N, 95.05°WSajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°EAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WVanheim — 37.18°N, 100.28°WBidahochi — 35.80°N, 110.10°WRunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EPawnee Creek — 40.90°N, 103.28°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°W

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The named rock units Hylidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 93 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hylidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hylidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,517 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Hylidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

91 references

Each of the 167 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. 79 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 content2

Picture of Hylidae

Credit
Original uploader was RobertC1301 at pl.wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815