Paradiscoglossus
No picture of Paradiscoglossus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Paradiscoglossus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnuraPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paradiscoglossus 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Lance Formation2
- La Posa Formation · Tremp Group1
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The named rock units Paradiscoglossus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paradiscoglossus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Paradiscoglossus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Albanerpeton nexuosus3 sites
- Paronychodon3 sites
- Theropoda3 sites
- Acipenser eruciferus2 sites
- Adocus2 sites
- Albanerpetontidae2 sites
- Alethinophidia2 sites
- Alphadon marshi2 sites
- Basilemys2 sites
- Belonostomus longirostris2 sites
- Borealosuchus sternbergii2 sites
- Brachychampsa montana2 sites
- Chamops segnis2 sites
- Champsosaurus2 sites
- Chelydridae2 sites
- Cimexomys minor2 sites
- Cimolestes incisus2 sites
- Cimolestes stirtoni2 sites
- Cimolodon nitidus2 sites
- Cimolomys gracilis2 sites
- Colpodontosaurus cracens2 sites
- Compsemys victa2 sites
- Corbiculidae2 sites
- Cyclurus fragosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paradiscoglossus, 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- New discoglossid and palaeobatrachid frogs from the Late Cretaceous of Wyoming and Montana, and a review of other frogs from the Lance and Hell Creek Formations2
- Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the latest Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Blasi 2 (Huesca, Spain)1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Paradiscoglossus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Paradiscoglossus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paradiscoglossus 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 itAnura through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Estes and Sanchíz 1982