Morelia riversleighensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MoreliaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pythonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Pythonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Pythonidae
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
13 occurrences of Morelia riversleighensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
13 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Morelia riversleighensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Morelia riversleighensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Morelia riversleighensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Yurlunggur3 sites
- Cookeroo hortusensis2 sites
- Gumardee keari2 sites
- Gumardee webbi2 sites
- Hydrophiinae2 sites
- Paljara2 sites
- Anura1 site
- Balbaroo fangaroo1 site
- Balbaroo nalima1 site
- Barawertornis tedfordi1 site
- Barguru maru1 site
- Barinya wangala1 site
- Baru wickeni1 site
- Brachipposideros1 site
- Bullockornis1 site
- Burramys1 site
- Cercartetus1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Crinia1 site
- Curculionidae1 site
- Dasyuridae1 site
- Dipnoi1 site
- Djilgaringa1 site
- Djilgaringa gillespiei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Morelia riversleighensis, 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
4 references- Montypythonoides: the Miocene snake Morelia riversleighensis (Smith & Plane, 1985) and the geographical origin of pythons7
- Pythonine snakes (Boidae) from the Miocene of Australia4
- A New, Giant Platypus, Obdurodon tharalkooschild, sp. nov. (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia1
- Fossil mammals of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland; preliminary overview of biostratigraphy, correlation and environmental change1
Each of the 13 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 Morelia riversleighensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Morelia riversleighensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Morelia riversleighensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itMorelia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith and Plane 1985)