Scotiophryne

Scotiophryne

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnuraPBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

22 occurrences of Scotiophryne on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

22 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

12 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.58°N, 106.88°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.88°WWahweap — 37.63°N, 112.12°WWahweap — 37.65°N, 112.04°WKaiparowits — 37.80°N, 111.50°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.49°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WEl Gallo — 30.20°N, 115.79°WCloverly — 44.51°N, 107.90°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WStraight Cliffs — 37.62°N, 112.16°W

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The named rock units Scotiophryne has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Scotiophryne and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Scotiophryne and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

419 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Scotiophryne, 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

12 references

Each of the 22 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 Scotiophryne

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Scotiophryne 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 itAnura through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Estes 1969