Anniella

Anniella

Uncredited · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
legless lizardPBDB
Sits inside
AnniellinaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 9.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 210 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 14 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10.0–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.7–1.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.3–867 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence867 ka–433 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence433 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4 Mya210 ka13 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Anniella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

1 formation

"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°W

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The named rock units Anniella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anniella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Anniella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Anniella, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Anniella

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anniella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAnniellinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1852