Dakotaophis greeni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DakotaophisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Colubridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Colubridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Dakotaophis greeni 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
7 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
5 formations
- Fort Randall Formation1
- Runningwater Formation1
- Fleming Formation1
- Rosebud Formation1
- Arikaree Formation1
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The named rock units Dakotaophis greeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dakotaophis greeni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dakotaophis greeni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
182 taxa- Salvadora paleolineata7 sites
- Ambystoma minshalli4 sites
- Charina prebottae4 sites
- Parvericius montanus4 sites
- Eumeces3 sites
- Gerrhonotus3 sites
- Marmotini3 sites
- Merychippus insignis3 sites
- Neonatrix elongata3 sites
- Ogmophis miocompactus3 sites
- Rana pipiens3 sites
- Russellagus vonhofi3 sites
- Aepycamelus2 sites
- Ameiseophis robinsoni2 sites
- Amia2 sites
- Brachyerix macrotis2 sites
- Bufo2 sites
- Copemys longidens2 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis2 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens2 sites
- Domninoides2 sites
- Elaphe nebraskensis2 sites
- Emydinae2 sites
- Eomyidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Dakotaophis greeni, 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
6 references- The Hottell Ranch rhino quarries (basal Ogallala: medial Barstovian), Banner County, Nebraska. Part I: Geologic setting, faunal lists, lower vertebrates2
- Summary of Miocene vertebrate fossils of the Granite Mountains Basin, central Wyoming1
- Herpetofauna of the Bijou Hills local fauna (late Miocene: Barstovian) of South Dakota1
- Amphibians and reptiles from the Gulf Coast Miocene of Texas1
- Additional snakes from the Miocene of western Nebraska1
- Snakes from the Rosebud Formation (Middle Miocene) of South Dakota.1
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Dakotaophis greeni 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 Dakotaophis greeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dakotaophis greeni 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.
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What may have been alongside itDakotaophis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holman 1976