Australophis anilioides
No picture of Australophis anilioides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Australophis anilioides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AustralophisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Aniliidae
- Life habit
- fossorial, solitaryPBDB, for Aniliidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Aniliidae
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.
2 occurrences of Australophis anilioides 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
2 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
1 formation
- Allen Formation · Malargüe Group2
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The named rock units Australophis anilioides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Australophis anilioides and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Australophis anilioides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Calyptocephalellidae2 sites
- Kuruleufenia xenopoides2 sites
- Plesiosauria2 sites
- Abelisauridae1 site
- Alamitophis argentinus1 site
- Alamitophis elongatus1 site
- Amia1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Atlantoceratodus patagonicus1 site
- Austroraptor cabazai1 site
- Belonostomus lamarquensis1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bonatitan reigi1 site
- Chelidae1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Cimolopterygidae1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Diplomystidae1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Faveoloolithidae1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Groebertherium allenensis1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Lamarqueavis australis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Australophis anilioides, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Australophis anilioides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Australophis anilioides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Australophis anilioides was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAustralophis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gómez et al. 2008