Pelobates cultripes

Pelobates cultripes is a toad species in the family Pelobatidae. It is known under many different common names, including the western spadefoot, Iberian spadefoot toad, Spanish spadefoot toad, and Wagler's spadefoot toad. It is found in most of the Iberian Peninsula with isolated populations southern and western France.

Pelobates cultripes

Uncredited · 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
PelobatesPBDB
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 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8.725 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.2–922 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences922 ka–615 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence615 ka–308 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences308 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.9 Mya774 ka9.2 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Pelobates cultripes 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

8 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.

Pelobates cultripes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pelobates cultripes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

217 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pelobates cultripes, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Pelobates cultripes

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Pelobates cultripes 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 itPelobates through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tschudi 1838)