Hyla

Hyla is a genus of frogs in the tree frog family Hylidae. As traditionally defined, it was a wastebasket genus with more than 300 species found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and across the Americas. After a major revision of the family, most of these have been moved to other genera so that Hyla now only contains 17 extant (living) species from Europe, northern Africa and Asia. The earliest known fossil member of this genus is †Hyla swanstoni from the Eocene of Saskatchewan, Canada, but its designation to Hyla happened before the major revision, meaning that its position needs confirmation.

Hyla

Christoph Leeb · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
tree frogPBDB
Sits inside
HylidaePBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 113 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 113 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 46 of 113 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 113 occurrencesPleistocene — about 54 of 113 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–8.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.8–7.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.5–6.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.3–5.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.0–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–2.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.5–1.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 44 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka37.7 Mya0 Mya

113 occurrences of Hyla 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

113 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

24 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°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°EWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WSajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°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°WBidahochi — 35.80°N, 110.10°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EChersonian — 47.25°N, 28.69°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°EUnterer Travertin — 50.97°N, 11.35°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°EGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.02°ECapo Mannu dune complex — 40.03°N, 8.40°E

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The named rock units Hyla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyla and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hyla and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 100 sites for Hyla, 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

69 references

Each of the 113 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. 57 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 Hyla

Credit
Christoph Leeb
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Hyla chrysoscelis · UF:Herp:64907

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 itHylidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laurenti 1768