Eumeces

The genus Eumeces comprises four African to Middle-Eastern skink species.

Eumeces

Ltshears - Trisha M Shears · Public Domain · 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
Sits inside
ScincinaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Scincidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Scincidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 46 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 46 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 46 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 46 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 46 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 46 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences66 Mya129 ka74 Mya0 Mya

46 occurrences of Eumeces 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

46 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

14 formations

Valentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.68°N, 95.05°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WBidahochi — 35.80°N, 110.10°WFort Randall — 43.10°N, 98.30°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WHarrison — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WPalm Springs — 32.97°N, 116.13°W

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The named rock units Eumeces has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eumeces and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eumeces and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Eumeces, 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

40 references

Each of the 46 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. 28 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 content2

Picture of Eumeces

Credit
Ltshears - Trisha M Shears
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Eumeces schneiderii · YPM:VZ:YPM HERR 003977

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wiegmann 1834