Malpolon

Malpolon is a genus of snakes, containing the following species:Malpolon insignitus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) – eastern Montpellier snake Malpolon moilensis (Reuss, 1834) – False cobra Malpolon monspessulanus (Hermann, 1804) – Montpellier snake

Malpolon

Hubert Laroche · CC BY 2.5 · 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
ColubridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Colubridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Colubridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 19 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Malpolon 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

19 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

2 formations

Cigarron — 37.92°N, 1.16°WColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°E

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The named rock units Malpolon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Malpolon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Malpolon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

327 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Malpolon, 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

13 references

Each of the 19 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Malpolon

Credit
Hubert Laroche
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Malpolon monspessulanus · LSUMZ:Herps:36788

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 itColubridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fitzinger 1826