Simoliophis libycus
No picture of Simoliophis libycus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Simoliophis libycus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SimoliophisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Simoliophis libycus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Mizdah Formation1
- Aoufous Formation · Kem Kem Group1
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The named rock units Simoliophis libycus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Simoliophis libycus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Simoliophis libycus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Anura1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Distobatus1 site
- Enchodontidae1 site
- Haimirichia amonensis1 site
- Lepisosteidae1 site
- Madtsoiidae1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Onchopristis1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Oumtkoutia anae1 site
- Protopterus1 site
- Pycnodontidae1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Simoliophiidae1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Simoliophis libycus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Amphibians and squamates from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Morocco1
- A new locality of Late Cretaceous snakes, mammals and other vertebrates in Africa (western Libya)1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Simoliophis libycus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Simoliophis libycus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Simoliophis libycus 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 itSimoliophis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nessov et al. 1998