Ranidae

Ranidae is a family of frogs, sometimes called "true frogs". They have the widest distribution of any frog family. They are abundant throughout most of the world, occurring on all continents except Antarctica. The true frogs are present in North America, northern South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The Asian range extends across the East Indies to New Guinea and a single species, the Australian wood frog, has spread into the far north of Australia.

Ranidae

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
RanoideaPBDB
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 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 523 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 523 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 523 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 523 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 105 of 523 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 70 of 523 occurrencesPleistocene — about 310 of 523 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 16 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 24 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 24 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 26 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 64 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 346 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka92 Mya0 Mya

523 occurrences of Ranidae 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

523 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

60 formations

Alamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WPorsuk — 39.52°N, 31.67°EPorsuk — 39.36°N, 31.91°EPorsuk — 39.34°N, 31.92°ESpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°ECromer 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°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EProlemais — 40.50°N, 21.74°EKingsdown — 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°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EKomnina — 40.43°N, 21.80°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°EChoremi — 37.38°N, 22.09°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°ETamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WXiacaowan — 33.45°N, 118.20°EPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EUttarbaini — 32.71°N, 74.85°EAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°W

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The named rock units Ranidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 364 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ranidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ranidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,623 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 377 sites for Ranidae, and this reads 240 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

199 references

Each of the 523 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. 187 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 Ranidae

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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. Rafinesque 1814