Agamidae

Agamidae is a family containing 582 species in 64 genera of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few locations in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards.

Agamidae

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrodontaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 87 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 87 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 87 occurrencesEocene — about 34 of 87 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 87 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 87 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 10 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Agamidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

87 occurrences

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

26 formations

Cambay Shale — 21.33°N, 72.98°ECambay Shale — 21.40°N, 73.08°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WHsanda Gol — 45.27°N, 101.76°EHsanda Gol — 45.42°N, 101.26°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°EAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°EHetaoyuan — 33.25°N, 111.45°ELegetet — 0.18°S, 35.27°EChinji — 32.93°N, 71.66°ELushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EKuldana — 33.62°N, 71.92°EChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WDjadokhta — 41.70°N, 106.80°ESilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WTienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°EVaugirard — 48.81°N, 2.24°EQuercy Phosphorites — 44.27°N, 1.63°EHeti — 35.30°N, 111.66°EUlan Shireh — 44.13°N, 103.56°ECorca — 42.02°N, 0.70°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EColombacci — 44.22°N, 11.77°ESandhan — 23.25°N, 70.15°E

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The named rock units Agamidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Agamidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Agamidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,764 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Agamidae, 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

55 references

Each of the 87 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. 43 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Agamidae

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Agamidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1827