Liasis dubudingala

The Bluff Downs giant python is an extinct species of snake from Queensland, Australia, that lived during the Early Pliocene. Named in 2002, Liasis dubudingala was likely the biggest snake found in Australia, with a total length of up to 9 m (30 ft). This length rivals the largest extant snake species, the reticulated python from Asia and the green anaconda from South America. It may have fed on larger prey such as juvenile diprotodontids, but it is also possible that it was a skilled climber capable of catching birds and arboreal marsupials.

No picture of Liasis dubudingala 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 Liasis dubudingala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LiasisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pythonidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Pythonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Pythonidae
Length
10 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At most 1.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPliocene5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.83 Mya3.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Liasis dubudingala on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

4 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

1 formation

Allingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°E

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The named rock units Liasis dubudingala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Liasis dubudingala and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Liasis dubudingala and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Liasis dubudingala, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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 content0

No picture of Liasis dubudingala 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 Liasis dubudingala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Liasis dubudingala was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itLiasis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scanlon and Mackness 2002