Ameiva

Ameiva, commonly called jungle-runners, is a genus of whiptail lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae.

Ameiva

D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
whiptail lizardPBDB
Sits inside
TeiiniPBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Teiidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Teiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 129 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 7 of 10 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

10 occurrences of Ameiva on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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

10 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.

Ameiva and its relatives

Holocene

Where Ameiva and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ameiva, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Ameiva

Credit
D. Gordon E. Robertson
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ameiva was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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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What may have been alongside itTeiini through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meyer 1795