Lampropeltis similis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LampropeltisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lampropeltis
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Lampropeltis
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Lampropeltis similis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
5 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group2
- Fort Randall Formation1
- Ogallala Formation1
- Ash Hollow Formation1
- Wood Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Lampropeltis similis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lampropeltis similis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lampropeltis similis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
286 taxa- Elaphe nebraskensis6 sites
- Ambystoma minshalli5 sites
- Bufo valentinensis5 sites
- Eumeces5 sites
- Sceloporus5 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus5 sites
- Bufo hibbardi4 sites
- Charina prebottae4 sites
- Copemys longidens4 sites
- Emydinae4 sites
- Eucastor tortus4 sites
- Geochelone4 sites
- Hesperolagomys fluviatilis4 sites
- Hyla4 sites
- Megasminthus tiheni4 sites
- Mylagaulidae4 sites
- Paleoheterodon tiheni4 sites
- Parvericius montanus4 sites
- Perognathus trojectioansrum4 sites
- Rana4 sites
- Russellagus vonhofi4 sites
- Salvadora paleolineata4 sites
- Amblystoma3 sites
- Bassariscus antiquus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lampropeltis similis, 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
8 references- Glad Tidings, a late middle Miocene herpetofauna from northeastern Nebraska1
- Herpetofauna of the Egelhoff site (Miocene: Barstovian) of north-central Nebraska1
- The Hottell Ranch rhino quarries (basal Ogallala: medial Barstovian), Banner County, Nebraska. Part I: Geologic setting, faunal lists, lower vertebrates1
- A late Tertiary stream channel fauna from South Bijou Hill, South Dakota1
- Herpetofauna of the WaKeeney local fauna (lower Pliocene: Clarendonian) of Trego County, Kansas1
- Herpetofauna of the Mission local fauna (Lower Pliocene) of South Dakota1
- Herpetofauna of the Wood Mountain Formation (Upper Miocene) of Saskatchewan.1
- Fossil snakes from the Valentine Formation of Nebraska1
Each of the 8 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. 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 content0
No picture of Lampropeltis similis 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 Lampropeltis similis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lampropeltis similis 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 itLampropeltis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holman 1964