Bufo spongifrons
No picture of Bufo spongifrons 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 Bufo spongifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BufoPBDB
- 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 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bufo spongifrons on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrences- Miocene44%
- Pliocene39%
- Pleistocene18%
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
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The named rock units Bufo spongifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bufo spongifrons and its relatives
MioceneWhere Bufo spongifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Bufo cognatus2 sites
- Agkistrodon1 site
- Alilepus1 site
- Ambystoma tigrinum1 site
- Arvicolinae1 site
- Bassariscus1 site
- Borophagus diversidens1 site
- Bufo alienus1 site
- Bufo repentinus1 site
- Bufo rexroadensis1 site
- Buisnictis1 site
- Camelops1 site
- Canis edwardii1 site
- Canis lepophagus1 site
- Capromeryx1 site
- Chrysemys picta1 site
- Coluber constrictor1 site
- Crotalus horridus1 site
- Dasypus bellus1 site
- Elaphe guttata1 site
- Elaphe vulpina1 site
- Emydoidea blandingii1 site
- Equus1 site
- Eumeces1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bufo spongifrons, 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- Herpetofaunas of the Big Springs and Hornet's Nest quarries (northeastern Nebraska, Pleistocene: Late Blancan)1
- A Review of New World Fossil Bufonids1
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. 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
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No picture of Bufo spongifrons 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 Bufo spongifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bufo spongifrons 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBufo through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tihen 1962