Saniwa orsmaelensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaniwaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Saniwa
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Saniwa
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Saniwa orsmaelensis 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
4 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
3 formations
- Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation1
- Tienen Formation · Landen Group1
- Lignites de Soissonais Formation1
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The named rock units Saniwa orsmaelensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Saniwa orsmaelensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Saniwa orsmaelensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
164 taxa- Eolacerta4 sites
- Anguini3 sites
- Dunnophis matronensis3 sites
- Gekkonidae3 sites
- Helodermatidae3 sites
- Necrosaurus3 sites
- Tinosaurus europeocaenus3 sites
- Allaeochelys2 sites
- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
- Anguinae2 sites
- Apatemys2 sites
- Arcius fuscus2 sites
- Arcius lapparenti2 sites
- Arfia gingerichi2 sites
- Asiatosuchus2 sites
- Axestemys vittata2 sites
- Blanosaurus primeocaenus2 sites
- Calamagras gallicus2 sites
- Cordylidae2 sites
- Diacodexis varleti2 sites
- Diplocynodon2 sites
- Dormaalocyon latouri2 sites
- Geiseltaliellus longicaudus2 sites
- Glyptosaurinae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Saniwa orsmaelensis, 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
3 references- Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe2
- Un gisement sparnacien exceptionnel à plantes, arthropodes et vertébrés (Éocène basal, MP7): Le Quesnoy (Oise, France)1
- La faune de lézards et d'amphisbènes (Reptilia, Squamata) du gisement de Dormaal (Belgique, Eocène inférieur)1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Saniwa orsmaelensis 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 Saniwa orsmaelensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saniwa orsmaelensis 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 itSaniwa through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dollo 1923