Elaphe vulpina

Elaphe vulpina (Baird & Girard, 1853), a relative of Elaphe vulpina — not Elaphe vulpina itself

Not Elaphe vulpina. This is Elaphe vulpina (Baird & Girard, 1853), a relative — both are Colubridae.

Easterla, David · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
fox 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 1.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 13 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4 Mya129 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Elaphe vulpina 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

13 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

3 formations

Kingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°W

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The named rock units Elaphe vulpina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elaphe vulpina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Elaphe vulpina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Elaphe vulpina, 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 13 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 content2

Picture of Elaphe vulpina (Baird & Girard, 1853)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Easterla, David
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Elaphe vulpina · UMMZ:Herps:230345

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. (Baird and Girard 1853)