Nigerophiidae
No picture of Nigerophiidae 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 Nigerophiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcrochordoideaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 56 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
14 occurrences of Nigerophiidae 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
14 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
6 formations
- Maevarano Formation4
- Wadi Milk Formation3
- Tavda Formation1
- Aoufous Formation · Kem Kem Group1
- Teberemt Formation1
- Intertrappean Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Nigerophiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nigerophiidae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nigerophiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Serpentes6 sites
- Anura5 sites
- Madtsoiidae4 sites
- Theropoda4 sites
- Beelzebufo ampinga3 sites
- Indophis sahnii3 sites
- Kelyophis hechti3 sites
- Aniliidae2 sites
- Calyptocephalellidae2 sites
- Crocodyliformes2 sites
- Dinosauria2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Kababisha2 sites
- Lacertilia2 sites
- Lapparentopheidae2 sites
- Majungasaurus crenatissimus2 sites
- Masiakasaurus knopfleri2 sites
- Neobatrachia2 sites
- Sauropoda2 sites
- Simosuchus clarki2 sites
- Squamata2 sites
- Sudamericidae2 sites
- Titanosauridae2 sites
- ? Colophidia indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Nigerophiidae, 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
10 references- Anuran Lissamphibian and Squamate Reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Deccan Intertrappean Sites in Central India, with a Review of Lissamphibian and Squamate Diversity in the Northward Drifting Indian Plate3
- A Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) snake assemblage from the Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar2
- Mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian) snakes from Wadi Abu Hashim, Sudan: The earliest snake assemblage.2
- Large palaeophiid and nigerophiid snakes from Paleogene Trans-Saharan Seaway deposits of Mali1
- New snakes from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar1
- A new, richly fossiliferous member comprised of tidal deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, northwestern Madagascar1
- Amphibians and squamates from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Morocco1
- A dinosaur fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of northern Sudan1
- Paleogene sea snakes from the eastern part of Tethys1
- New snakes from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Naskal, India.1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Nigerophiidae 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 Nigerophiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nigerophiidae 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 itAcrochordoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rage 1975