Python

Python is a genus of constricting snakes in the Pythonidae family native to the tropics and subtropics of the Eastern Hemisphere.

Python

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BoidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Boidae
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Booidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Boidae

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 73 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 46 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 73 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–5.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.6–4.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Python on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

73 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

21 formations

Allingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EVogel River Series — 3.21°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EElisabeth Bay — 26.97°S, 15.33°EElisabeth Bay — 26.91°S, 15.21°EDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°ECarl Creek Limestone — 19.08°S, 138.72°ECamfield Beds — 17.12°S, 131.52°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ESagantole — 10.52°N, 40.47°EHiwegi — 0.41°S, 34.15°ESystem B — 19.01°S, 138.67°EDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EChinji — 30.92°N, 71.98°ESandhan — 23.24°N, 70.18°EChhasra — 23.44°N, 70.99°E

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The named rock units Python has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Python and its relatives

Miocene

Where Python and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

942 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Python, 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

45 references

Each of the 73 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. 33 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Python

Credit
This photography was created by Mariluna . Other photos see here .
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Python bivittatus · UF:Herp:167546

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Everything alive alongside itBoidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daudin 1803