Anolis conspersus
Anolis conspersus, also known as the Cayman Islands blue-fanned anole, Grand Cayman blue-fanned anole or Grand Cayman anole, is a species of anole found on the Cayman Islands.
Dan Schofield · CC BY 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
- AnolisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Anolis conspersus 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
6 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 conspersus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Anolis conspersus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Capromys6 sites
- Nesophontes6 sites
- Alsophis cantherigerus5 sites
- Cyclura nubila5 sites
- Geocapromys5 sites
- Eleutherodactylus planirostris3 sites
- Aristelliger praesignis2 sites
- Brachyphylla nana2 sites
- Corvus nasicus2 sites
- Crocodylus rhombifer2 sites
- Eptesicus fuscus2 sites
- Macrotus waterhousii2 sites
- Osteopilus septentrionalis2 sites
- Zenaida aurita2 sites
- Athene cunicularia1 site
- Aves1 site
- Capromyinae1 site
- Caracara creightoni1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Erophylla sezekorni1 site
- Eudocimus1 site
- Eudocimus albus1 site
- Ionornis martinica1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Anolis conspersus, 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
2 references- Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands5
- The Cuban Crocodile, Crocodylus rhombifer, from Late Quaternary Fossil Deposits on Grand Cayman1
Each of the 6 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 Anolis conspersus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dan Schofield
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anolis conspersus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnolis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Garman 1887