Boinae

The Boinae are a purported subfamily of boas found in Central and South America, as well as the West Indies. In the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), Boinae is considered an invalid synonym of Boidae.

Boinae

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
Sits inside
BoidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 4 of 112 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 50 of 112 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 112 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 28 of 112 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 112 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 112 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 11 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

112 occurrences of Boinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

112 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

31 formations

Sarmiento — 45.40°S, 67.72°WSarmiento — 43.28°S, 65.48°WSarmiento — 44.35°S, 69.78°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 45.78°S, 68.47°WQuercy Phosphorites — 44.27°N, 1.63°EHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.22°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.59°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WCollón Cura — 40.39°S, 70.21°WCollón Cura — 41.17°S, 70.67°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WCalcaire de Saint-Ouen — 49.13°N, 3.35°EPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°ESan Jose — 36.19°N, 107.09°WSan Jose — 36.16°N, 107.04°WMesa — 9.85°N, 63.33°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WFleming — 30.63°N, 95.01°WLower Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°EMost — 50.42°N, 13.36°EKuldana — 33.62°N, 71.92°ESocorro — 11.99°N, 70.11°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WCerrejón — 11.15°N, 72.55°WSolimões — 8.78°S, 68.90°WToropí — 28.60°S, 59.03°WKhalagai — 53.15°N, 110.20°EMendikdere — 38.62°N, 44.29°E

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The named rock units Boinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Boinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Boinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,731 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Boinae, 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

56 references

Each of the 112 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. 44 further references are not listed. 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 Boinae

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Boinae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1825