Vipera (Pelias) berus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- common adderPBDB
- Sits inside
- Vipera (Pelias)PBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 8.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
24 occurrences of Vipera (Pelias) berus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
24 occurrences- Miocene4%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene83%
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
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The named rock units Vipera (Pelias) berus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vipera (Pelias) berus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Vipera (Pelias) berus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
246 taxa- Natrix natrix14 sites
- Anguis fragilis13 sites
- Bufo bufo12 sites
- Rana12 sites
- Coronella austriaca11 sites
- Elaphe longissima10 sites
- Rana temporaria10 sites
- Lacerta8 sites
- Beremendia fissidens6 sites
- Citellus6 sites
- Bufo5 sites
- Natrix5 sites
- Sorex minutus5 sites
- Triturus vulgaris5 sites
- Bufo viridis4 sites
- Emys orbicularis4 sites
- Lacerta agilis4 sites
- Mimomys4 sites
- Pseudopus pannonicus4 sites
- Sorex4 sites
- Triturus cristatus4 sites
- Castor fiber3 sites
- Elaphe3 sites
- Equus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Vipera (Pelias) berus, 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
10 references- Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe8
- Fossil snakes from Poland8
- Small vertebrates from the Late Pliocene Las Higueruelas locality of central Spain with new biochronological and palaeoecological inferences1
- Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Miocene of Fălciu (Eastern Romania)1
- Late Pleistocene Squamate Reptiles from the Baranica Cave near Knjaževac (Eastern Serbia)1
- Middle to Late Pleistocene herpetofauna from Scladina and Sous-Saint-Paul caves (Namur, Belgium)1
- Anurans and squamates from the Lower Pliocene (MN 14) Osztramos 1 locality (Northern Hungary)1
- Magneto- and cyclostratigraphy and mammal-fauna’s of the Pleistocene lacustrine Megalopolis Basin, Peloponnesos, Greece1
- Insularity and Quaternary vertebrate faunas in Britain and Ireland1
- The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk and Suffolk1
Each of the 24 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.
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Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Vipera (Pelias) berus itself, so it was not used.
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 Vipera (Pelias) berus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vipera (Pelias) berus 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 itVipera (Pelias) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)