Pelophylax
Searched as Pelophylax cf. ridibundus. The Paleobiology Database treats Pelophylax as the accepted name.
Pelophylax is a genus of true frogs widespread in Eurasia, with a few species ranging into northern Africa. This genus was erected by Leopold Fitzinger in 1843 to accommodate the green frogs of the Old World, which he considered distinct from the brown pond frogs of Carl Linnaeus' genus Rana.
Charles J. Sharp · 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
- RanidaePBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
4 occurrences of Pelophylax on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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.
Pelophylax and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pelophylax and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
850 taxa- Lacertidae25 sites
- Lacerta19 sites
- Rana16 sites
- Pelobates14 sites
- Apodemus13 sites
- Natrix13 sites
- Bufo bufo12 sites
- Colubrinae12 sites
- Ophisaurus12 sites
- Hyla arborea11 sites
- Lissotriton11 sites
- Natrix natrix11 sites
- Pseudopus11 sites
- Vipera11 sites
- Anguis fragilis10 sites
- Bufo viridis10 sites
- Latonia9 sites
- Mimomys9 sites
- Scolecophidia9 sites
- Bufo calamita8 sites
- Chelotriton8 sites
- Latonia gigantea8 sites
- Natrix maura8 sites
- Ranidae8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Pelophylax, 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- Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Miocene of Fălciu (Eastern Romania)2
- Pliocene Volcanic Terrain of the South Caucasus: The Missing Link in Eurasian Palaeobiogeography1
- The Afro–Asian labeonine genus Garra Hamilton, 1822 (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) in the Pliocene of Central Armenia: Palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical implications1
Each of the 4 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. 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 Pelophylax
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Charles J. Sharp
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pelophylax”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRanidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fitzinger 1843