Natrix

Searched as Natrix aff. rudabanyaensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Natrix as the accepted name.

Natrix is a genus of Old World snakes found mainly across Eurasia in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. They are commonly called grass snakes and water snakes, but some other snake species also known commonly as "grass snakes" and "water snakes" are not in the genus.

Natrix

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
water snakePBDB
Sits inside
NatricidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 5.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8.725 Mya and 3.55 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPliocene8.8–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2 Mya3 Mya

5 occurrences of Natrix on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

5 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

Spilia — 41.15°N, 23.48°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°E

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The named rock units Natrix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Natrix and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Natrix and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,740 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 170 sites for Natrix, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Natrix

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Fafner assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Juha M
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laurenti 1768