Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus) holbrooki

Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus) holbrooki

John Tyler · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Also called
Eastern spadefoot toadPBDB
Sits inside
Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus)PBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–1.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.9–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–633 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences633 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences16.3 Mya129 ka19 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus) holbrooki 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

10 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

Wicomico — 29.42°N, 82.22°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°W

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The named rock units Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus) holbrooki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus) holbrooki and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus) holbrooki and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

499 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus) holbrooki, 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

10 references

Each of the 10 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 Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus) holbrooki

Source
GBIF
Credit
John Tyler
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Scaphiopus (Scaphiopus) holbrooki 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itScaphiopus (Scaphiopus) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Harlan 1835)