Alamitophis argentinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlamitophisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Alamitophis argentinus 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- La Colonia Formation1
- Los Alamitos Formation1
- Allen Formation · Malargüe Group1
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The named rock units Alamitophis argentinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alamitophis argentinus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Alamitophis argentinus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Atlantoceratodus patagonicus2 sites
- Calyptocephalellidae2 sites
- Chelidae2 sites
- Diplomystidae2 sites
- Elasmosauridae2 sites
- Kuruleufenia xenopoides2 sites
- Lepisosteidae2 sites
- Madtsoiidae2 sites
- Neornithes2 sites
- Patagoniophis parvus2 sites
- Siluriformes2 sites
- Abelisauridae1 site
- Alamitherium bishopi1 site
- Alamitornis minutus1 site
- Amia1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Atlantoceratodus iheringi1 site
- Atractosteus1 site
- Australophis anilioides1 site
- Austroraptor cabazai1 site
- Austrotriconodon mckennai1 site
- Aves1 site
- Batoidei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Alamitophis argentinus, 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
3 references- Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Bajo de Santa Rosa (Allen Formation), Río Negro province, Argentina, with the description of a new sauropod dinosaur (Titanosauridae)1
- New record of snakes from the Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina)1
- Nuevos Boidae Madtsoiinae en el Cretácico Tardio de Patagonia (Formación Los Alamitos, Río Negro, Argentina) [New Madtsoiinae Boinae in the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Los Alamitos Formation, Río Negro, Argentina)]1
Each of the 3 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 Alamitophis argentinus 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 Alamitophis argentinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alamitophis argentinus 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 itAlamitophis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Albino 1986