Varanus hoffmanni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VaranusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Varanidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Varanidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Varanidae
Time the record covers
At least 2.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.09 Mya.
3 occurrences of Varanus hoffmanni 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Varanus hoffmanni 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.
Varanus hoffmanni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Varanus hoffmanni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Coluber2 sites
- Ophisaurus2 sites
- Alopecocyon1 site
- Amphicyon major1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Anchitherium aurelianense1 site
- Ancylus1 site
- Armantomys aragonensis1 site
- Aves1 site
- Bithynia1 site
- Blanus1 site
- Booidea1 site
- Bufo1 site
- Bufo viridis1 site
- Cainotherium miocaenicum1 site
- Chalicotherium1 site
- Clemmydopsis1 site
- Coluber hungaricus1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Coronella miocaenica1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Dinocyon thenardi1 site
- Discoglossidae1 site
- Dracaenosaurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Varanus hoffmanni, 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- Lizards from the Late Miocene of Polgárdi (W-Hungary)1
- Precisiones sobre la Geologia, Fauna, Cronoestratigrafia y Paleoecologia del yacimiento Mioceno de Corcoles1
- Présence de Varanidae (Reptilia, Sauria) dans le Miocène de Catalogne. Considérations sur l’histoire de la famille1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Varanus hoffmanni 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 Varanus hoffmanni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Varanus hoffmanni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itVaranus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roger 1898