Pelobates fuscus

Pelobates fuscus is a species of toad in the family Pelobatidae, native to an area extending from Central Europe to Western Asia. It is commonly known as the common spadefoot, garlic toad, the common spadefoot toad and the European common spadefoot.

Pelobates fuscus

Franco Andreone - see authorization · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Common Eurasian spadefoot toadPBDB
Sits inside
PelobatesPBDB
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 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.55 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.16 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 19 of 21 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–932 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences932 ka–777 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences777 ka–621 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences621 ka–466 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences466 ka–311 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences311 ka–155 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences155 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.55 Mya129 ka4.66 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Pelobates fuscus 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

21 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.

Pelobates fuscus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pelobates fuscus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

298 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Pelobates fuscus, 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

Each of the 21 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. 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 content1

Picture of Pelobates fuscus

Credit
Franco Andreone - see authorization
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pelobates fuscus 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.

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What may have been alongside itPelobates through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laurenti 1768