Pipidae

The Pipidae are a family of basal, tongueless frogs. There are 41 species in the family, found in tropical South America and sub-Saharan Africa.

Pipidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
clawed frogPBDB
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 135 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 38 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 38 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences137.05 Mya1.8 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Pipidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

38 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

Allen — 40.06°S, 66.80°WAllen — 39.78°S, 66.70°WAllen — 39.95°S, 66.57°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 7.35°S, 74.95°WOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°EHuitrera — 41.04°S, 71.20°WHuitrera — 40.63°S, 70.98°WHuitrera — 40.67°S, 71.08°WAoufous — 31.77°N, 5.94°WGlib Zegdou — 30.00°N, 4.00°WHatira — 30.54°N, 34.73°ELos Alamitos — 41.95°S, 66.33°WInbeceten — 15.05°N, 6.03°ETayasir — 32.45°N, 34.88°EHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WSalamanca — 45.50°S, 67.18°WSheep Pass — 38.72°N, 115.05°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WNsungwe — 8.90°S, 33.45°EDorotea — 50.71°S, 72.54°WSan Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.24°WChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°W

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The named rock units Pipidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pipidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pipidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

456 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Pipidae, 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

25 references

Each of the 38 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. 13 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 Pipidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pipidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1825