Rhineura sepultura

No picture of Rhineura sepultura 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 Rhineura sepultura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhineuraPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Amphisbaenia
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Amphisbaenia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amphisbaenia

Time the record covers

At most 2.2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Rhineura sepultura 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

1 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

1 formation

Rosebud — 43.20°N, 101.80°W

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The named rock units Rhineura sepultura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rhineura sepultura and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rhineura sepultura and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rhineura sepultura, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Rhineura sepultura 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 Rhineura sepultura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhineura sepultura 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itRhineura through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holman 1979