Mediolacerta
No picture of Mediolacerta 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 Mediolacerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Mediolacerta on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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 Mediolacerta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mediolacerta and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Mediolacerta and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
162 taxa- Lacertidae5 sites
- Pseudeumeces cadurcensis5 sites
- Amphisbaenidae4 sites
- Anguini4 sites
- Dracaenosaurus croizeti4 sites
- Cordylidae3 sites
- Glirudinus glirulus3 sites
- Lacerta filholi3 sites
- Microdyromys praemurinus3 sites
- Ophisauromimus coderetensis3 sites
- Peridyromys murinus3 sites
- Schizogliravus bruijni3 sites
- Squamata3 sites
- Amphisbaenia2 sites
- Anguidae2 sites
- Anguis2 sites
- Bavarioboa crocheti2 sites
- Blanidae2 sites
- Cyonarctos dessei2 sites
- Dremotherium quercyi2 sites
- Eomys2 sites
- Eomys zitteli2 sites
- Ergilemys2 sites
- Gekkota2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Mediolacerta, 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
3 references- Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe5
- The new rare record of the late Oligocene lizards and amphisbaenians from Germany and its impact on our knowledge of the European terminal Palaeogene2
- Osteological atlas of new lizards from the Phosphorites du Quercy (France), based on historical, forgotten, fossil material1
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 Mediolacerta 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 Mediolacerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mediolacerta 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 itLacertidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Augé 2005