Anolis

Anolis is a genus of anoles, iguanian lizards in the family Anolidae, native to the Americas. With more than 425 species, it represents the world's most species-rich amniote tetrapod genus, although many of these have been proposed to be moved to other genera, in which case only about 45 Anolis species remain. Previously, it was classified under the family Polychrotidae that contained all the anoles, as well as Polychrus, but recent studies place it in the Dactyloidae.

Anolis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
anolePBDB
Sits inside
PolychrotidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 60 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 60 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 60 occurrencesPleistocene — about 32 of 60 occurrencesPleistocene30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.0–0 Mya — about 54 occurrences18.5 Mya11.7 ka30.1 Mya0 Mya

60 occurrences of Anolis 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

60 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

3 formations

Fort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WWicomico — 29.42°N, 82.22°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.72°W

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The named rock units Anolis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anolis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Anolis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

680 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Anolis, 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

25 references

Each of the 60 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. 13 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 content3

Picture of Anolis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Anolis sagrei · LUC:san

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itPolychrotidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daudin 1802