Nidophis insularis
No picture of Nidophis insularis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Nidophis insularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NidophisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Nidophis insularis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Nidophis insularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nidophis insularis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nidophis insularis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Albanerpeton3 sites
- Anura3 sites
- Allodaposuchus precedens2 sites
- Ferenceratops shqiperorum2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Kallokibotion bajazidi2 sites
- Megaloolithidae2 sites
- Richardoestesia2 sites
- Zalmoxes robustus2 sites
- Acynodon1 site
- Allodaposuchus1 site
- Balaur bondoc1 site
- Barbatodon oardaensis1 site
- Becklesius nopcsai1 site
- Caenagnathidae1 site
- Celtedens1 site
- Characeae1 site
- Cimolodonta1 site
- Doratodon1 site
- Dortokidae1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Hainina1 site
- Hatzegobatrachus grigorescui1 site
- Hatzegopteryx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nidophis insularis, 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- A new madtsoiid snake from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Western Romania2
- Our snake is like theirs: nest-raiding snakes in the Maastrichtian of the Hateg Basin, Romania?1
Each of the 3 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.
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No picture of Nidophis insularis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Nidophis insularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nidophis insularis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNidophis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vasile et al. 2013