Blanus thomaskelleri
No picture of Blanus thomaskelleri 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 Blanus thomaskelleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BlanusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Amphisbaenidae
- Life habit
- fossorialPBDB, for Amphisbaenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amphisbaenia
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 22.4 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Blanus thomaskelleri on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Blanus thomaskelleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Blanus thomaskelleri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Blanus thomaskelleri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Anguinae2 sites
- Merkurosaurus ornatus2 sites
- Ophisaurus2 sites
- Ophisaurus spinari2 sites
- Pseudopus ahnikoviensis2 sites
- Vipera2 sites
- Albanerpeton inexpectatum1 site
- Bavarioboa1 site
- Booidea1 site
- Chamaeleo1 site
- Coluber1 site
- Coluber caspioides1 site
- Coluber dolnicensis1 site
- Coluber suevicus1 site
- Colubrinae1 site
- Colubroidea1 site
- Cordylidae1 site
- Desmanella gudrunae1 site
- Diplocynodon ratelii1 site
- Elaphe1 site
- Elapidae1 site
- Euleptes gallica1 site
- Falseryx1 site
- Galerix aurelianensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Blanus thomaskelleri, 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 Blanus thomaskelleri 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 Blanus thomaskelleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Blanus thomaskelleri 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 itBlanus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cernansky et al. 2015