Discoglossus

Discoglossus is a genus of frogs in the family Alytidae found in southern Europe and northwestern Africa.

Discoglossus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
painted frogPBDB
Sits inside
DiscoglossidaePBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 38 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 28 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Discoglossus 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

38 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

2 formations

Perfugas — 40.72°N, 9.10°ECapo Mannu dune complex — 40.03°N, 8.40°E

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The named rock units Discoglossus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discoglossus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Discoglossus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

538 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Discoglossus, 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

19 references

Each of the 38 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Discoglossus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Discoglossus pictus · KU:KUH:144217

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 itDiscoglossidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Otth 1837