Vipera (Daboia)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- oriental viperPBDB
- Sits inside
- ViperaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Vipera (Daboia) 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
9 occurrences- Miocene43%
- Pliocene24%
- Pleistocene33%
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
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The named rock units Vipera (Daboia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vipera (Daboia) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Vipera (Daboia) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Coluber2 sites
- Colubridae2 sites
- Eryx2 sites
- Gerbillus2 sites
- Mustela2 sites
- Natrix2 sites
- ? Boiga sp.1 site
- Aceratherium1 site
- Acinonyx pardinensis1 site
- Albanensia1 site
- Allactaginae1 site
- Allocricetus1 site
- Allohippus stenonis1 site
- Amphechinus1 site
- Amphicyoninae1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
- Anchitherium aurelianense1 site
- Anguis1 site
- Anguis polgardiensis1 site
- Anura1 site
- Apodemus1 site
- Bison1 site
- Boiga cf. trigonata1 site
- Bufo viridis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Vipera (Daboia), 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- Fossil snake localities of the Caucasus5
- Vipera (Daboia) ukrainica – a new viper (Serpentes; Viperidae) from the Middle Sarmatian (Upper Miocene) of the Ukraine3
- Late Miocene Snakes from Polgárdi1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Vipera (Daboia) was found. Wikipedia, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikidata 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 Vipera (Daboia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itVipera through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1842)