Anolis
Searched as Anolis bimaculatus leachi. The Paleobiology Database treats Anolis as the accepted name.
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.
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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 most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anolis 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Anolis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Anolis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
680 taxa- Geocapromys14 sites
- Macrotus waterhousii13 sites
- Leiocephalus12 sites
- Nesophontes12 sites
- Capromys10 sites
- Osteopilus septentrionalis10 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus9 sites
- Passeriformes9 sites
- Athene cunicularia8 sites
- Chiroptera8 sites
- Cyclura8 sites
- Dasypus bellus8 sites
- Meleagris gallopavo8 sites
- Oryzomys palustris8 sites
- Terrapene carolina8 sites
- Cyclura nubila7 sites
- Eptesicus fuscus7 sites
- Equus7 sites
- Neofiber alleni7 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri7 sites
- Rana7 sites
- Tyto alba7 sites
- Cubophis vudii6 sites
- Elaphe6 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content3
Picture of Anolis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- 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
- Credit
- GigaScience
- 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Anolis”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPolychrotidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daudin 1802