Perochirus ateles
Perochirus ateles, also known as Dumeril's tropical gecko or Micronesia saw-tailed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. It is endemic to Micronesia.
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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.
5 occurrences of Perochirus ateles on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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- 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.
Perochirus ateles and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Perochirus ateles and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Aerodramus vanikorensis4 sites
- Emballonura semicaudata4 sites
- Gekkonidae4 sites
- Ramphotyphlops sp.4 sites
- Zosteropidae4 sites
- Aplonis opaca3 sites
- Emoia sleveni3 sites
- Varanus3 sites
- Cryptoblepharus poecilopleurus2 sites
- Emoia sp.2 sites
- Gehyra2 sites
- Lepidodactylus lugubris2 sites
- Myzomela rubratra2 sites
- Nactus pelagicus2 sites
- Porzana2 sites
- Pteropus2 sites
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla2 sites
- Rattus2 sites
- Alopecoenas xanthonurus1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Ducula oceanica1 site
- Erythrura1 site
- Gallirallus owstoni1 site
- Lipinia noctua1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Perochirus ateles, 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 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 content1
Picture of Perochirus ateles
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Perochirus ateles 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
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.