Neobatrachus
Neobatrachus is a genus of burrowing ground frogs native to Australia. They occur in every state except Tasmania, however this genus is absent from the far north of Australia and most of Queensland. Most of the species in this genus occur in south-western Western Australia. They are often found in arid areas and burrow underground to avoid dehydration. They are typically found in temporary claypan and flooded grassland habitats.

LiquidGhoul · 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
- LimnodynastinaePBDB
- 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 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Neobatrachus 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Neobatrachus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Neobatrachus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Baringa1 site
- Baringa nelsonensis1 site
- Chelidae1 site
- Corracheirus curramulkensis1 site
- Cundokoala yorkensis1 site
- Diprotodontidae1 site
- Elapidae1 site
- Garrdimalga mcnamarai1 site
- Glaucodon1 site
- Ilbandornis1 site
- Macropus atlas1 site
- Macropus goliah1 site
- Meiolania1 site
- Metasthenurus newtonae1 site
- Palorchestes painei1 site
- Petauriis cf. norfolcensis1 site
- Phascolarctos cinereus1 site
- Phascolomus cf. medius1 site
- Phascolomus sp.1 site
- Potorous1 site
- Procoptodon rapha1 site
- Protemnodon1 site
- Simosthenurus baileyi1 site
- Simosthenurus cegsai1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Neobatrachus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content3
Picture of Neobatrachus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- LiquidGhoul
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Neobatrachus pictus · UF:Herp:100822
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- The Leavey Lab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLimnodynastinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peters 1863