Elaphe longissima
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElaphePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Elaphe
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Elaphe
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.55 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.09 Mya to 0 Mya.
30 occurrences of Elaphe longissima on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
30 occurrences- Pliocene12%
- Pleistocene85%
- Holocene3%
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 Elaphe longissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elaphe longissima and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Elaphe longissima and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
187 taxa- Rana15 sites
- Natrix natrix14 sites
- Bufo bufo10 sites
- Coronella austriaca10 sites
- Vipera (Pelias) berus10 sites
- Anguis fragilis9 sites
- Rana temporaria9 sites
- Natrix8 sites
- Citellus7 sites
- Emys orbicularis6 sites
- Lacerta6 sites
- Beremendia fissidens5 sites
- Bufo5 sites
- Bufo viridis5 sites
- Mimomys5 sites
- Sorex4 sites
- Sorex minutus4 sites
- Vipera4 sites
- Allocricetus3 sites
- Blarinoides mariae3 sites
- Colubrinae3 sites
- Lacerta agilis3 sites
- Neomys3 sites
- Pelobates fuscus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Elaphe longissima, 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
4 references- Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe16
- Fossil snakes from Poland12
- Magneto- and cyclostratigraphy and mammal-fauna’s of the Pleistocene lacustrine Megalopolis Basin, Peloponnesos, Greece1
- Les amphibiens et les reptiles du Pliocene superieur de Balaruc II (Herault, France)1
Each of the 30 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. 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 content0
No picture of Elaphe longissima 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 Elaphe longissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elaphe longissima 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 itElaphe through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laurenti 1768