Paleoheterodon tiheni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaleoheterodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Colubridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Colubridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 3.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 1.4 Mya.
13 occurrences of Paleoheterodon tiheni 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
13 occurrences- Miocene93%
- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene1%
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
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group4
- Ash Hollow Formation2
- Fort Randall Formation1
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The named rock units Paleoheterodon tiheni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paleoheterodon tiheni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paleoheterodon tiheni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
425 taxa- Salvadora paleolineata9 sites
- Thamnophis9 sites
- Ambystoma minshalli7 sites
- Mylagaulidae7 sites
- Nerodia7 sites
- Rana7 sites
- Copemys longidens6 sites
- Elaphe nebraskensis6 sites
- Eumeces6 sites
- Hyla6 sites
- Parvericius montanus6 sites
- Russellagus vonhofi6 sites
- Spermophilus6 sites
- Teleoceras6 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus6 sites
- Alluvisorex5 sites
- Charina prebottae5 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis5 sites
- Hipparionini5 sites
- Metechinus amplior5 sites
- Mystipterus5 sites
- Neonatrix elongata5 sites
- Perognathus trojectioansrum5 sites
- Sceloporus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Paleoheterodon tiheni, 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
12 references- Hemphillian (late Miocene) snakes from Nebraska, with comments on Arikareean through Blancan snakes of midcontinental North America2
- The geology and paleontology of Ashfall Fossil Beds, a late Miocene (Clarendonian) mass-death assemblage, Antelope County and adjacent Knox County, Nebraska, USA1
- The Pipe Creek Sinkhole biota, a diverse late Tertiary continental fossil assemblage from Grant County, Indiana1
- Glad Tidings, a late middle Miocene herpetofauna from northeastern Nebraska1
- A new late Miocene herpetofauna from Franklin County, Nebraska1
- Early Hemphillian (late Miocene) snakes from the Higgins local fauna of Lipscomb County, Texas1
- The Hottell Ranch rhino quarries (basal Ogallala: medial Barstovian), Banner County, Nebraska. Part I: Geologic setting, faunal lists, lower vertebrates1
- Fossil Amphibians and reptiles of Nebraska and Kansas1
- Herpetofauna of the Bijou Hills local fauna (late Miocene: Barstovian) of South Dakota1
- Upper Miocene snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes) from Southeastern Nebraska1
- Reptiles of the Egelhoff local fauna (Upper Miocene) of Nebraska1
- Fossil snakes from the Valentine Formation of Nebraska1
Each of the 13 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 Paleoheterodon tiheni 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 Paleoheterodon tiheni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paleoheterodon tiheni 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 itPaleoheterodon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holman 1964