Latonia

Latonia is a genus of frogs in the family Alytidae. It contains only one extant species, the Hula painted frog which is endemic to Israel and was originally classified in the genus Discoglossus, though several fossil species are known from the Paleogene and Neogene periods spanning across Europe.

Latonia

Mickey Samuni-Blank · 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
Sits inside
DiscoglossidaePBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 3.55 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 89 occurrencesMiocene — about 69 of 89 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 89 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 89 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.5–8.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.7–8.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.0–7.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–5.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.0–4.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.3–3.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20.45 Mya3.55 Mya23.5 Mya1.3 Mya

89 occurrences of Latonia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

89 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

18 formations

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EProlemais — 40.50°N, 21.74°EProlemais — 40.46°N, 21.78°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.17°N, 10.10°ESpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°ESajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°ELaa — 48.37°N, 16.35°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°ELefkon — 41.18°N, 23.42°ELefkon — 40.78°N, 24.03°EKomnina — 40.43°N, 21.80°EGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.02°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EAgenais Limestone — 44.31°N, 0.61°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°EColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°EDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°EBayraktepe — 40.23°N, 26.68°EPorsuk — 39.52°N, 31.65°E

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The named rock units Latonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Latonia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Latonia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,016 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Latonia, 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

37 references

Each of the 89 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. 25 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 content1

Picture of Latonia

Credit
Mickey Samuni-Blank
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Latonia 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 itDiscoglossidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1843