Kelyophis hechti
No picture of Kelyophis hechti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kelyophis hechti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KelyophisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Kelyophis hechti on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Kelyophis hechti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kelyophis hechti and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Kelyophis hechti and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Beelzebufo ampinga2 sites
- Majungasaurus crenatissimus2 sites
- Masiakasaurus knopfleri2 sites
- Simosuchus clarki2 sites
- Sudamericidae2 sites
- Adinophis fisaka1 site
- Anura1 site
- Calyptocephalellidae1 site
- Cubiculum ornatus1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Enantiornithes1 site
- Erymnochelys1 site
- Eusuchia1 site
- Lavanify miolaka1 site
- Lepisoteus sp.1 site
- Madtsoia madagascariensis1 site
- Mahajangasuchus insignis1 site
- Mahajungasuchus insignis1 site
- Menarana nosymena1 site
- Miadanasuchus oblita1 site
- Multituberculata1 site
- Neobatrachia1 site
- Pleurodira1 site
- Rapetosaurus krausei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kelyophis hechti, 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- A Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) snake assemblage from the Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar2
- A new, richly fossiliferous member comprised of tidal deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, northwestern Madagascar1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Kelyophis hechti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kelyophis hechti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kelyophis hechti 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itKelyophis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. LaDuke et al. 2010