Albionbatrachus
Albionbatrachus is an extinct genus of frogs from England and Romania that lived during the Eocene and Miocene. Two species are recognized:Albionbatrachus oligocenicus Albionbatrachus wightensis
No picture of Albionbatrachus 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 Albionbatrachus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeobatrachidaePBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Albionbatrachus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Albionbatrachus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Albionbatrachus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Albionbatrachus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Bransatoglis bahloi1 site
- Diplocynodon1 site
- Discoglossidae1 site
- Dunnophis1 site
- Eopelobates1 site
- Eotalpa anglica1 site
- Glamys minor1 site
- Glamys priscus1 site
- Glyptosaurinae1 site
- Headonophis harrisoni1 site
- Isoptychus1 site
- Limnaea1 site
- Megalotriton1 site
- Mioproteus gardneri1 site
- Necrosaurus1 site
- Ophiosaurus sp.1 site
- Palaeobatrachidae1 site
- Paleryx rhombifer1 site
- Paradelomys1 site
- Planorbis1 site
- Schizogliravus daamsi1 site
- Scincomorpha1 site
- Sciuroides ehrensteinensis1 site
- Suevosciurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Albionbatrachus, 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- A New Proteid Salamander from the Lower Oligocene of Romania, with Notes on the Paleobiogeography of Eurasian Proteids1
- A new palaeobatrachid frog from the Eocene of the British Isles1
Each of the 2 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 Albionbatrachus 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 Albionbatrachus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Albionbatrachus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPalaeobatrachidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meszoely et al. 1984