Ophisaurus holeci

No picture of Ophisaurus holeci 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 Ophisaurus holeci, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphisaurusPBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 7.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 12.75 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.1 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesMiocene23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20.45 Mya12.75 Mya23.5 Mya10.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Ophisaurus holeci on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

3 formations

Upper Freshwater Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EMost — 50.42°N, 13.36°EIndusial Limestone — 46.26°N, 3.51°E

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The named rock units Ophisaurus holeci has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophisaurus holeci and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ophisaurus holeci and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

98 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ophisaurus holeci, 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

5 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 content0

No picture of Ophisaurus holeci 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 Ophisaurus holeci, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ophisaurus holeci 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 itOphisaurus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klembara 2015