Palaeobatrachidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PipimorphaPBDB
- 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 69 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
51 occurrences of Palaeobatrachidae 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
51 occurrences- Late Cretaceous20%
- Paleocene2%
- Eocene6%
- Oligocene24%
- Miocene27%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene8%
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
15 formations
- Lance Formation3
- Sajovolgyi Formation3
- Lower Headon Beds Formation2
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group2
- Gaverdovsky Formation2
- Vitoria Formation1
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The named rock units Palaeobatrachidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeobatrachidae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Palaeobatrachidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,041 taxa- Palaeobatrachus17 sites
- Rana16 sites
- Pelobates14 sites
- Lacerta12 sites
- Latonia gigantea9 sites
- Anguis8 sites
- Anura8 sites
- Salamandridae8 sites
- Albanerpetontidae7 sites
- Eopelobates7 sites
- Lacertidae7 sites
- Pelophylax7 sites
- Pseudopus pannonicus7 sites
- Serpentes7 sites
- Triturus7 sites
- Chelotriton paradoxus6 sites
- Colubrinae6 sites
- Elaphe6 sites
- Hyla6 sites
- Mimomys6 sites
- Ophisaurus6 sites
- Pliobatrachus langhae6 sites
- Pseudopus6 sites
- Steneofiber6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Palaeobatrachidae, 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
38 references- Ectothermic vertebrates (Teleostei, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Testudines, Choristodera, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Upper Oligocene of Oberleichtersbach (Northern Bavaria, Germany)3
- Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of continental Tertiary vertebrate faunas in the Lower Rhine Embayment (NW-Germany)3
- Középs & #337;-miocén & #337;smaradványok, a Mátrasz & #337;l & #337;s , Rákóczi-kápolna alatti útbevágásból. I. A Mátrasz & #337;l & #337;s 1. lel & #337;hely [Middle miocene fossils from the road cut below the Rákóczi chapel at Mátrasz & #337;l & #337;s. I. The site Mátrasz & #337;l & #337;s 1]3
- New discoglossid and palaeobatrachid frogs from the Late Cretaceous of Wyoming and Montana, and a review of other frogs from the Lance and Hell Creek Formations3
- Palaeobatrachid frog from the late Miocene of Northern Caucasus, Russia2
- Amphibians and Squamates from the Miocene of Felsőtárkány Basin, N-Hungary2
- Les vertébrés terrestres de l’Oligocène inférieur de Belgique (Formation de Borgloon, MP 21): inventaire et interprétation des données actuelles2
- Pleistocene vertebrate faunas of Hungary2
- Notes on the amphibian and reptilian fauna of the Polish Pliocene and Early Pleistocene2
- Late Oligocene ambient temperatures reconstructed by stable isotope analysis of terrestrial and aquatic vertebrate fossils of Enspel, Germany1
- Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the latest Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Blasi 2 (Huesca, Spain)1
- New information on frogs (Lissamphibia: Anura) from the Lance Formation (Maastrichtian) and Bug Creek Anthills (late Maastrichtian and early Paleocene), Hell Creek Formation, USA1
Each of the 51 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. 26 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 Palaeobatrachidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Palaeobatrachidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1865