Oligosoma
Oligosoma is a genus of small to medium-sized skinks found only in New Zealand, Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. Oligosoma had previously been found to belong to the Eugongylus group of genera in the subfamily Lygosominae; the Australian genus Bassiana appears to be fairly closely related.
Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScincidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Scincidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Scincidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
20 occurrences of Oligosoma on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
20 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Oligosoma and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Oligosoma and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Cyanoramphus12 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae11 sites
- Rattus exulans11 sites
- Hoplodactylus maculatus10 sites
- Passer domesticus9 sites
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae8 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica8 sites
- Rhipidura fuliginosa8 sites
- Sphenodon8 sites
- Sturnus vulgaris8 sites
- Mus musculus7 sites
- Mystacina robusta7 sites
- Petroica australis7 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae7 sites
- Turnagra capensis7 sites
- Callaeas cinereus6 sites
- Carduelis carduelis6 sites
- Anthus novaeseelandiae5 sites
- Gerygone igata5 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae5 sites
- Hoplodactylus duvaucelii5 sites
- Mohoua ochrocephala5 sites
- Petroica macrocephala5 sites
- Xenicus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Oligosoma, 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
1 referenceEach of the 20 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 content1
Picture of Oligosoma
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Oligosoma 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Oligosoma”
- 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 itScincidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girard