Prosalirus bitis

Prosalirus is an extinct genus of primitive frog known from the Early Jurassic of North America. It contains a single species, P. bitis, known from the Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

Prosalirus bitis

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
ProsalirusPBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 184.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic200–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200 Mya183.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Prosalirus bitis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

1 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

Kayenta — 35.76°N, 111.08°W

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

Prosalirus bitis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Prosalirus bitis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Prosalirus bitis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Prosalirus bitis

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Prosalirus bitis 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 itProsalirus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shubin and Jenkins 1995