Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai
No picture of Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai 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 Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaglyptosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Glyptosaurinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Glyptosaurinae
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai and its relatives
EoceneWhere Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Lacertilia2 sites
- Saniwa2 sites
- Anguidae1 site
- Calamagras primus1 site
- Cheilophis huerfanoensis1 site
- Equidae1 site
- Glyptosaurinae1 site
- Leptacodon catulus1 site
- Macrocranion nitens1 site
- Nyctitherium curtidens1 site
- Palaeoxantusia fera1 site
- Prodiacodon tauricinerei1 site
- Provaranosaurus1 site
- Saniwa ensidens1 site
- Sanjuanophis froehlichi1 site
- Simpsonodus chacensis1 site
- Swainiguanoides milleri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Fossil Squamata from the San José Formation, Early Eocene, San Juan Basin, New Mexico4
- Revision of the Paleogene genus Glyptosaurus (Reptilia, Anguidae)1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai 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 Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraglyptosaurus yatkolai 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 itParaglyptosaurus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sullivan 1979