Thoraciliacus rostriceps

Thoraciliacus rostriceps is an extinct species of frog from the Cretaceous period and the only species of the genus Thoraciliacus, which is classified in the unranked clade Pipimorpha. A recent phylogenetic analysis confirmed this conclusion, and further suggested that Thoraciliacus rostriceps is more closely related to Pipidae and Shelaniinae than to Palaeobatrachus. Fossils of T. rostriceps were found in Makhtesh Ramon, Negev Desert, Israel and it is believed they lived during the Barremian. Other fossils have been found near Marydale, South Africa in an Upper Cretaceous lake.

No picture of Thoraciliacus rostriceps 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 Thoraciliacus rostriceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThoraciliacusPBDB
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 30 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143.7 Mya112.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Thoraciliacus rostriceps on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

Hatira — 30.54°N, 34.73°E

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

Thoraciliacus rostriceps and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Thoraciliacus rostriceps and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Thoraciliacus rostriceps, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Thoraciliacus rostriceps 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 Thoraciliacus rostriceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thoraciliacus rostriceps 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nevo 1968