Kizylkuma

Kizylkuma is an extinct genus of frog in the family Alytidae (=Discoglossidae). Its fossils have been found in the Bissekty Formation (Uzbekistan).

No picture of Kizylkuma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kizylkuma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiscoglossidaePBDB
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 most 4.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.4 Mya89.3 Mya

6 occurrences of Kizylkuma on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

6 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

1 formation

Bissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EBissekty — 40.70°N, 72.60°E

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The named rock units Kizylkuma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Kizylkuma and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Kizylkuma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Kizylkuma, 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

2 references

Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Kizylkuma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kizylkuma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kizylkuma was found in Sketchfab.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDiscoglossidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nessov 1981