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Pipidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37435	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37435

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Anura : Pipidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Temnospondyli
-	Lissamphibia
-	Batrachia
order	Salientia	Laurenti 1768
order	Anura
superfamily	Pipoidea	Fitzinger 1843
-	Panpipidae	Aranciaga Rolando et al. 2019
family	Pipidae	Gray 1825

Common Name

clawed frog

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pipidae	family	belongs to Aglossa	stated with evidence	Cope, 1875
Pipidae	family	belongs to Opisthocoela	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1946
Pipidae	family	belongs to Pipoidea	stated without evidence	Estes, 1975
Pipidae	family	belongs to Anura	implied	Carroll, 1988
Pipidae	family	belongs to Anura	stated without evidence	Frank and Ramus, 1996
Pipidae	family	belongs to Pipimorpha	stated with evidence	Henrici, 1998
Pipidae	family	belongs to Pipoidea	stated without evidence	Sanchiz, 1998
Pipidae	family	belongs to Anuri	stated without evidence	Henrici and Báez, 2001
Pipidae	family	belongs to Pipoidea	stated with evidence	Hoegg et al., 2004
Pipidae	family	belongs to Pipimorpha	stated with evidence	Trueb and Báez, 2006
Pipidae	family	belongs to Pipoidea	stated with evidence	Gissi et al., 2006
Pipidae	family	belongs to Anura	stated with evidence	Delfino and Sanchez-Villagra, 2018
Pipidae	family	belongs to Panpipidae	stated with evidence	Aranciaga Rolando et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

21 (64%)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

brackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)

Diet

carnivore (based on Temnospondyli)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pipinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		3	89.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Xenopodinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Llankibatrachus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Oumtkoutia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Shomronella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Xenopus genus	listed (PBDB)	Clawed Frog	7	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1825	Pipidae Gray
1875	Pipidae Cope p. 9
1898	Pipidae Gadow p. 16
1946	Pipidae Kuhn p. 54
1975	Pipidae Estes p. 48
1988	Pipidae Carroll
1996	Pipidae Frank and Ramus
1998	Pipidae Henrici p. 327

Year	Name and Author
1998	Pipidae Sanchiz
2001	Pipidae Henrici and Báez p. 872
2004	Pipidae Hoegg et al. p. 1195
2006	Pipidae Gissi et al. p. 231
2006	Pipidae Trueb and Báez p. 56
2018	Pipidae Delfino and Sanchez-Villagra
2019	Pipidae Aranciaga Rolando et al.
2019	Pipidae Blackburn et al.

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Cope E. D. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia; with a systematic list of the higher groups, and an essay on geographical distribution. Based on the specimens contained in the U. S. National Museum, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 1, 1-109

Gadow H. , A Classification of Vertebrata Recent and Extinct, xvii-82

Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67

Estes R. (1975) Xenopus from the Palaeocene of Brazil and its zoogeographic importance, Nature 254, 48-50

Frank N., Ramus E. (1996) A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World, 1-377

Henrici A. C. (1998) A new pipoid anuran from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 2, 321-332

Sanchiz B. (1998) Salientia, Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie 4

Henrici A. C., Báez A. M. (2001) First occurrence of Xenopus (Anura: Pipidae) on the Arabian Peninsula: a new species from the Upper Oligocene of Yemen, Journal of Paleontology 75 4, 870-882

Hoegg S., Vences M., et al (2004) Phylogeny and comparative substitution rates of frogs inferred from sequences of three nuclear genes, Molecular Biology and Evolution 21 7, 1188-1200

Gissi C., San Mauro D., et al (2006) Mitochondrial phylogeny of Anura (Amphibia): a case study of congruent phylogenetic reconstruction using amino acid and nucleotide characters, Gene 366 2, 228-237

Trueb L., Báez A. M. (2006) Revision of the Early Cretaceous Cordicephalus from Israel and an assessment of its relationships among pipoid frogs, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 1, 44-59

Delfino M., Sanchez-Villagra M. R. (2018) A Late Miocene pipine frog from the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela, Ameghiniana doi:10.5710/AMGH.04.10.2017.3136

Aranciaga Rolando A. M., Agnolin F. L., et al (2019) A new pipoid frog (Anura, Pipimorpha) from the Paleogene of Patagonia. Paleobiogeographical implications, Comptes Rendus Palevol doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2019.04.003

Blackburn D. C., Paluh D. J., et al (2019) The Earliest Fossil of the African Clawed Frog (Genus Xenopus) from Sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of Herpetology 53 2, 125-130 doi:10.1670/18-139

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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