Rana sylvatica

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- RanaPBDB
- 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 1.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Rana sylvatica 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene89%
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.
Rana sylvatica and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Rana sylvatica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
326 taxa- Thamnophis5 sites
- Amblystoma maculatum4 sites
- Ambystoma opacum4 sites
- Clethrionomys gapperi4 sites
- Crotalus horridus4 sites
- Eptesicus fuscus4 sites
- Lampropeltis triangulum4 sites
- Marmota monax4 sites
- Neotoma floridana4 sites
- Nerodia sipedon4 sites
- Rana pipiens4 sites
- Sceloporus undulatus4 sites
- Sorex4 sites
- Synaptomys cooperi4 sites
- Tamiasciurus hudsonicus4 sites
- Amblystoma3 sites
- Ambystoma tigrinum3 sites
- Blarina brevicauda3 sites
- Bufo3 sites
- Bufo americanus3 sites
- Carphophis amoenus3 sites
- Castor canadensis3 sites
- Coluber constrictor3 sites
- Condylura cristata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Rana sylvatica, 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
6 references- A Pleistocene Herpetofauna from Worm Hole Cave, Pendleton County, West Virginia1
- The fossil herpetofauna (Pleistocene; Irvingtonian) of Hamilton Cave, Pendleton County, West Virginia1
- Herpetofaunas of the Big Springs and Hornet's Nest quarries (northeastern Nebraska, Pleistocene: Late Blancan)1
- The Pleistocene (Kansan) herpetofauna of Trout Cave, West Virginia1
- The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia1
- The Pleistocene (Kansan) herpetofauna of Cumberland Cave, Maryland1
Each of the 6 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. 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 sylvatica
- 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Rana sylvatica · NCSM:Herp:31419
Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itRana through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. LeConte 1825