Eopelobates grandis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EopelobatesPBDB
- 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 most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Eopelobates grandis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Eopelobates grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eopelobates grandis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eopelobates grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Agriochoerus antiquus1 site
- Alligator prenasalis1 site
- Anosteirinae1 site
- Anthracotheriidae1 site
- Archaeotherium coarctatum1 site
- Archaeotherium mortoni1 site
- Brachyrhynchocyon dodgei1 site
- Brontotheriidae1 site
- Colodon occidentalis1 site
- Emydidae1 site
- Eomyidae1 site
- Eusmilus1 site
- Hyaenodon horridus1 site
- Hyaenodon montanus1 site
- Hypertragulidae1 site
- Hyracodon priscidens1 site
- Ischyromys1 site
- Merycoidodon1 site
- Mesohippus bairdi1 site
- Mesohippus celer1 site
- Miniochoerus forsythae1 site
- Parictis gilpini1 site
- Parictis parvus1 site
- Peltosaurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eopelobates grandis, 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
2 references- Geology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology of the Chadron Formation1
- Two pelobatid frogs from the Tertiary of North America and their relationships to fossil and recent forms1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Eopelobates grandis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eopelobates grandis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEopelobates through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zweifel 1956