Elaphe quatuorlineata

Elaphe quatuorlineata is a member of the family Colubridae. The four-lined snake is a non-venomous species and one of the largest of the European snakes.

Elaphe quatuorlineata

Carlo Catoni · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
Also called
four-lined snakePBDB
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 970 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 3.55 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.09 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–983 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences983 ka–806 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences806 ka–628 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.55 Mya2.58 Mya5.6 Mya274 ka

5 occurrences of Elaphe quatuorlineata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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.

Elaphe quatuorlineata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Elaphe quatuorlineata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Elaphe quatuorlineata, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Elaphe quatuorlineata

Credit
Carlo Catoni
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Elaphe quatuorlineata 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 itElaphe through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lacépède 1789)