Bufo calamita
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BufoPBDB
- 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 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
28 occurrences of Bufo calamita 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
28 occurrences- Pliocene2%
- Pleistocene95%
- Holocene4%
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.
Bufo calamita and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bufo calamita and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
226 taxa- Bufo bufo23 sites
- Rana17 sites
- Rana temporaria14 sites
- Lacerta13 sites
- Anguis fragilis11 sites
- Natrix natrix10 sites
- Pelodytes punctatus10 sites
- Vipera9 sites
- Alytes obstetricans7 sites
- Lacertidae7 sites
- Natrix maura7 sites
- Pliomys7 sites
- Apodemus6 sites
- Coronella austriaca6 sites
- Pelobates cultripes6 sites
- Coronella girondica5 sites
- Hyla arborea5 sites
- Natrix5 sites
- Pelophylax5 sites
- Rhinechis scalaris5 sites
- Stephanorhinus etruscus5 sites
- Allocricetus4 sites
- Beremendia fissidens4 sites
- Bison4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Bufo calamita, 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- Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe19
- Long-term climate record inferred from early-middle Pleistocene amphibian and squamate reptile assemblages at the Gran Dolina Cave, Atapuerca, Spain5
- A new middle Pleistocene (Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 6) cold herpetofaunal assemblage from the central Iberian Peninsula (Manzanares Valley, Madrid)1
- A very diverse amphibian and reptile assemblage from the late Middle Pleistocene of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Sima del Elefante, Burgos, Northwestern Spain)1
- A New Species of Water Vole from the Early Pleistocene of Southern Europe1
- Montousse 5 (Hautes Pyrenees), un nouveau remplissage de fissure a faune de vertebres du Pleistocene Inferieur1
Each of the 28 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bufo calamita
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Bufo calamita was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itBufo through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1864