Chalcides

Chalcides is a genus of skinks.

Chalcides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScincinaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Scincidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Scincidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 12 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.6–8.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.9–8.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.2–7.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.5–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–2.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.7–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–683 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences683 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.5 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Chalcides on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

19 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

1 formation

Tagay Khalagay — 53.15°N, 107.19°E

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The named rock units Chalcides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chalcides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chalcides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

279 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Chalcides, 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

13 references

Each of the 19 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. 1 further reference is 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 Chalcides

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chalcides 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.

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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What may have been alongside itScincinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758