Acris crepitans

The northern cricket frog is a species of small hylid frog native to the United States and northeastern Mexico. These frogs are majorly in grey, green, and brown color with blotching patterns. Many have a brown or orange stripe down the center of their back and a triangular marking on the top of their head. Despite being members of the tree frog family, they are not arboreal. These frogs prefer habitats near the edges of slow-moving bodies of water, and in close proximity to shelter items, like rocks. It has two recognized subspecies, A. c. crepitans and A. c. paludicola.

Acris crepitans

Patrick Coin ( Patrick Coin ) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
northern cricket frogPBDB
Sits inside
AcrisPBDB
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 12.5 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–560 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences560 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence12.5 Mya1.4 Mya16.8 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Acris crepitans 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

6 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

2 formations

Valentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°W

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The named rock units Acris crepitans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acris crepitans and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Acris crepitans and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

256 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Acris crepitans, 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

6 references

Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Acris crepitans

Credit
Patrick Coin ( Patrick Coin )
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Acris crepitans 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 itAcris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baird 1854