Vipera antiqua
No picture of Vipera antiqua 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 Vipera antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ViperaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 22.4 Mya to 16.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
4 occurrences of Vipera antiqua 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Vipera antiqua and its relatives
MioceneWhere Vipera antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Falseryx petersbuchi3 sites
- Bavarioboa hermi2 sites
- Palaeonatrix lehmani2 sites
- Pseudopus2 sites
- Squamata2 sites
- Vipera platyspondyla2 sites
- Albanerpeton inexpectatum1 site
- Amblyolacerta dolnicensis1 site
- Amphechinus edwardsi1 site
- Amphictis borbonica1 site
- Amphictis prolongata1 site
- Amphictis schlosseri1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Angustictis mayri1 site
- Blanus gracilis1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Bransateryx vireti1 site
- Broiliana1 site
- Cainotherium bavaricum1 site
- Chainodus intercedens1 site
- Chamaeleo1 site
- Chamaeleo andrusovi1 site
- Chamaeleonidae1 site
- Coluber cadurci1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Vipera antiqua, 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- Description of Miocene snake from Petersbuch 2 with comments on the lower and middle Miocene ophidian faunas of southern Germany.2
- Additions to the early Miocene herpetofauna of Weisenau (Germany): urodeles and squamates from a rediscovered historical collection in Italy1
- Snakes from the Lower Miocene Locality of Dolnice (Czechoslovakia)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 Vipera antiqua 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 Vipera antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vipera antiqua 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.
Keep going
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. Szyndlar 1987