Lacerta

Lacerta is a genus of lizards of the family Lacertidae.

Lacerta

George Chernilevsky · 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
LacertidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Lacertidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Lacertidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 212 occurrencesOligocene — about 27 of 212 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 67 of 212 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 212 occurrencesPleistocene — about 85 of 212 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 17 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 67 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

212 occurrences of Lacerta 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

212 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

15 formations

Hsanda Gol — 45.45°N, 101.27°EHsanda Gol — 45.30°N, 102.08°EHsanda Gol — 45.29°N, 101.63°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.17°N, 10.10°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ELaa — 48.37°N, 16.35°ELoh — 45.38°N, 101.51°ELoh — 45.54°N, 101.14°ESajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°ESpilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EWiesbaden — 50.04°N, 8.27°ECórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WBorgloon — 50.82°N, 4.82°EReuver clay — 50.90°N, 6.45°ESinap — 40.33°N, 32.69°ECapo Mannu dune complex — 40.03°N, 8.40°E

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The named rock units Lacerta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 167 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lacerta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lacerta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,773 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 170 sites for Lacerta, 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

73 references

Each of the 212 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. 61 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 content3

Picture of Lacerta

Credit
George Chernilevsky
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Lacerta agilis · volsu:volsu:98.2

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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What may have been alongside itLacertidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758