Hoplodactylus maculatus
Dr Lara Shepherd and Dr Leon Perrie · CC BY-SA 1.0 · via Wikidata/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.
16 occurrences of Hoplodactylus maculatus 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
16 occurrences- Pleistocene11%
- Holocene89%
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 maculatus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Hoplodactylus maculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Cyanoramphus16 sites
- Rattus exulans14 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica13 sites
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae12 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae12 sites
- Mystacina robusta12 sites
- Rhipidura fuliginosa10 sites
- Turnagra capensis10 sites
- Mohoua ochrocephala9 sites
- Mus musculus9 sites
- Petroica australis9 sites
- Oligosoma lineoocellatum8 sites
- Passer domesticus8 sites
- Xenicus8 sites
- Anthornis melanura7 sites
- Hoplodactylus duvaucelii7 sites
- Petroica macrocephala7 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae7 sites
- Sphenodon7 sites
- Sturnus vulgaris7 sites
- Gerygone igata6 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae6 sites
- Oligosoma nigriplantare6 sites
- Tadorna variegata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Hoplodactylus maculatus, 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 Zealand14
- Taphonomy of two holocene microvertebrate deposits, Takaka Hill, Nelson, New Zealand, and identification of the avian predator responsible2
Each of the 16 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 content2
Picture of Hoplodactylus maculatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dr Lara Shepherd and Dr Leon Perrie
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 1.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- CAS Herpetology (HERP)
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Hoplodactylus maculatus · CAS:SUR:12213
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.
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. (Gray 1845)