Bombina

The fire-bellied toads are a group of six species of small frogs belonging to the genus Bombina.

Bombina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
fire-bellied toadPBDB
Sits inside
BombinatoridaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 18 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Bombina 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

18 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

3 formations

Edelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EChersonian — 47.25°N, 28.69°EGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.02°E

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The named rock units Bombina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bombina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bombina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Bombina, 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

13 references

Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is 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 Bombina

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Bombina bombina · UF:Herp:57057

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itBombinatoridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oken 1816