Hoplodactylus duvaucelii
Duvaucel's gecko is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to New Zealand and regarded as 'at risk' by the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) due to distribution limitations.
Jennifer Moore · CC BY 3.0 · 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
- HoplodactylusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Gekkonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Gekkonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Hoplodactylus duvaucelii on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene13%
- Holocene87%
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.
Hoplodactylus duvaucelii and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Hoplodactylus duvaucelii and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Aegotheles novaezealandiae7 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica7 sites
- Cyanoramphus7 sites
- Hoplodactylus maculatus7 sites
- Mystacina robusta7 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae6 sites
- Rattus exulans6 sites
- Rhipidura fuliginosa6 sites
- Mus musculus5 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae5 sites
- Petroica australis5 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae5 sites
- Turnagra capensis5 sites
- Anthornis melanura4 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Gerygone igata4 sites
- Mohoua ochrocephala4 sites
- Passer domesticus4 sites
- Petroica macrocephala4 sites
- Tadorna variegata4 sites
- Xenicus4 sites
- Callaeas cinereus3 sites
- Carduelis carduelis3 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Hoplodactylus duvaucelii, 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
2 references- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand6
- Taphonomy of two holocene microvertebrate deposits, Takaka Hill, Nelson, New Zealand, and identification of the avian predator responsible1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Hoplodactylus duvaucelii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jennifer Moore
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hoplodactylus duvaucelii 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHoplodactylus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duméril and Bibron 1836)