Coronella

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- ColubrinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Colubridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Colubridae
- 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 16.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
61 occurrences of Coronella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
61 occurrences- Miocene13%
- Pliocene12%
- Pleistocene70%
- Holocene5%
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
5 formations
- Miocene Lower Continental Complex Formation · Valles-Penedes basin Group1
- Unterer Travertin Formation1
- Oberer Travertin I Formation1
- Choremi Formation1
- Gaverdovsky Formation1
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The named rock units Coronella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coronella and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Coronella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
406 taxa- Bufo bufo30 sites
- Natrix natrix27 sites
- Rana25 sites
- Anguis fragilis23 sites
- Lacertidae20 sites
- Lacerta19 sites
- Vipera14 sites
- Bufo calamita13 sites
- Pelodytes punctatus13 sites
- Rana temporaria13 sites
- Pliomys12 sites
- Elaphe longissima11 sites
- Natrix11 sites
- Vipera (Pelias) berus11 sites
- Elaphe10 sites
- Apodemus9 sites
- Beremendia fissidens9 sites
- Hyla arborea9 sites
- Mimomys9 sites
- Pseudopus pannonicus9 sites
- Sorex9 sites
- Microtus8 sites
- Rhinechis scalaris8 sites
- Allocricetus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Coronella, 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
26 references- Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe15
- Long-term climate record inferred from early-middle Pleistocene amphibian and squamate reptile assemblages at the Gran Dolina Cave, Atapuerca, Spain6
- Fossil snakes from Poland6
- Anurans and squamates from the Lower Pliocene (MN 14) Osztramos 1 locality (Northern Hungary)3
- Late Miocene snakes (Reptilia: Serpentes) form Polgárdi (Hungary): a second contribution3
- Schlüssel zur Bestimmung der Wirbel süddeutscher Ophidier und dessen Anwendung auf pleistozän/holozänes Reptilmaterial aus dem Euerwanger Bühl (Franken); (Key for the identification of the vertebrae of ophidians and it's use according to reptiles from the Pleistocene/Holocene of Euerwanger Buehl, Franken)3
- Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Miocene of Fălciu (Eastern Romania)2
- Late Pleistocene Squamate Reptiles from the Baranica Cave near Knjaževac (Eastern Serbia)2
- New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, Southern Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic cave site2
- A very diverse amphibian and reptile assemblage from the late Middle Pleistocene of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Sima del Elefante, Burgos, Northwestern Spain)2
- Catalogue of Spanish Plio-Pleistocene amphibians and squamate reptiles from the Museu de Geologia de Barcelona2
- Amphibians and reptiles as palaeonvironmental proxies during the Late Pleistocene (MIS3): The case of Stratigraphic Unit V of El Salt, Alcoi, Spain1
Each of the 61 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. 14 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 Coronella
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Coronella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itColubrinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laurenti 1768