Pterygoboa

Pterygoboa

David W. Steadman; others · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ErycinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Erycinae
Life habit
fossorial, solitaryPBDB, for Erycinae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Erycinae

Time the record covers

At least 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 12.5 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 7 occurrencesMiocene28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23.04 Mya16.3 Mya27.8 Mya12 Mya

7 occurrences of Pterygoboa 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

7 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

5 formations

Valentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WRosebud — 43.20°N, 101.80°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WParachucla — 30.20°N, 82.80°W

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The named rock units Pterygoboa 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.

Pterygoboa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pterygoboa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

382 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pterygoboa, 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 7 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 content2

Picture of Pterygoboa

Source
GBIF
Credit
David W. Steadman; others
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pterygoboa sp. · UF:VP:298626

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holman 1976