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Alytidae (midwife toads)
Taxonomy
Alytidae was named by Fitzinger (1843). It is extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Alytinae by Sanchiz (1998).
It was assigned to Discoglossidae by Sanchiz (1998); to Anura by Hugues-Alexandre et al. (2013), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Georgalis et al. (2016); and to Anura by de Lapparent de Broin et al. (2020).
It was reranked as the subfamily Alytinae by Sanchiz (1998).
It was assigned to Discoglossidae by Sanchiz (1998); to Anura by Hugues-Alexandre et al. (2013), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Georgalis et al. (2016); and to Anura by de Lapparent de Broin et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1843 | Alytidae Fitzinger |
1998 | Alytinae Sanchiz |
2013 | Alytidae Hugues-Alexandre et al. p. 805 |
2014 | Alytidae Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 569 |
2016 | Alytidae Georgalis et al. |
2020 | Alytidae de Lapparent de Broin et al. p. 410 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Alytidae Fitzinger 1843 [midwife toads]
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Invalid names: Discoglossinae Günther 1859 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Carroll 1988, Uhen 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Tithonian to the top of the Vallesian or 150.80000 to 8.70000 Ma
Collections (20 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Tithonian - Early/Lower Berriasian | Morocco (Figuig) | Alytidae indet. (204936) | |
Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Romania (Alba) | Paralatonia transylvanica (115074) | |
Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Romania (Hunedoara) | Alytidae indet. (97948) Amphibia indet. (67811) Eodiscoglossus sp. (67818) Paralatonia sp. (193942) Paralatonia sp., Paralatonia transylvanica, Alytidae indet. (193946) | |
Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Spain (Valencia) | Discoglossinae indet. (47035) | |
Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Romania (Hunedoara) | Discoglossidae indet. (27894) Paradiscoglossus sp. (48445) Paralatonia transylvanica (67808 193945 219177) | |
Ypresian - Lutetian | France (Languedoc-Roussillon Region) | Discoglossinae indet. (31717) | |
MP 22 | France (Midi-Pyrenées) | Alytidae indet. (167537) | |
MP 26 | France (Gard) | Alytidae indet. (172927) | |
Tortonian | Italy (Tuscany) | Discoglossinae indet. (190848) | |
Vallesian | Morocco | Discoglossinae indet. (149240) | |
Vallesian | Afghanistan (Kabul) | Discoglossinae indet. (214146) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Crete) | Alytidae indet. (183151) |