Ophisaurus roqueprunensis
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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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Ophisaurus roqueprunensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group2
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The named rock units Ophisaurus roqueprunensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ophisaurus roqueprunensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Ophisaurus roqueprunensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Anguini5 sites
- Amphisbaenidae4 sites
- Anguis3 sites
- Lacerta filholi3 sites
- Necrosaurus3 sites
- Pseudeumeces cadurcensis3 sites
- Stenoplesictis cayluxi3 sites
- Amphidozotherium cayluxi2 sites
- Amphiperatherium exile2 sites
- Amphiperatherium minutum2 sites
- Bachitherium curtum2 sites
- Bransateryx vireti2 sites
- Butselia biveri2 sites
- Coluber cadurci2 sites
- Cordylidae2 sites
- Dinailurictis bonali2 sites
- Eotalpa belgica2 sites
- Euronyctia2 sites
- Euronyctia belgica2 sites
- Geotrypus acutidentatus2 sites
- Heterosoricinae2 sites
- Hyaenodon leptorhynchus2 sites
- Lacertidae2 sites
- Lophiomeryx chalaniati2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ophisaurus roqueprunensis, 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- Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe5
- An assemblage of early Oligocene lizards (Squamata) from the locality of Boutersem (Belgium), with comments on the Eocene-Oligocene transition1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Ophisaurus roqueprunensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 roqueprunensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophisaurus roqueprunensis 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Auge 1992)