Rana

Rana is a genus of frogs commonly known as the Holarctic true frogs, pond frogs or brown frogs. Members of this genus are found through much of Eurasia and western North America. Many other genera were formerly included here. These true frogs are usually largish species characterized by their slim waists and wrinkled skin; many have thin ridges running along their backs, but they generally lack "warts" as in typical toads. They are excellent jumpers due to their long, slender legs. The typical webbing found on their hind feet allows for easy movement through water. Coloration is mostly greens and browns above, with darker and yellowish spots.

Rana

dariusz wozniak · 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
RanidaePBDB
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 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 412 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 412 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 71 of 412 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 41 of 412 occurrencesPleistocene — about 283 of 412 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 9 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 27 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 52 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 253 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

412 occurrences of Rana 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

412 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

46 formations

Alamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.91°N, 1.36°EValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.79°N, 100.07°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.48°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.80°N, 94.30°WFleming — 30.68°N, 95.05°WSpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°EAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WWicomico — 29.42°N, 82.22°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WSajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EChoremi — 37.38°N, 22.09°ETamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°ESan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WUnterer Travertin — 50.97°N, 11.35°EUnterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°EKomnina — 40.43°N, 21.80°EBidahochi — 35.80°N, 110.10°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WRunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°W

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The named rock units Rana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 298 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rana and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Rana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,067 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 303 sites for Rana, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

158 references

Each of the 412 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. 146 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 Rana

Credit
dariusz wozniak
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Linnaeus 1758