Blanus strauchi

The Turkish worm lizard is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Blanidae. The species is native to Southeast Europe and the Middle East. There are two recognized subspecies.

Blanus strauchi

Benny Trapp · 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
Turkish worm lizardPBDB
Sits inside
BlanusPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Amphisbaenidae
Life habit
fossorialPBDB, for Amphisbaenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amphisbaenia

Time the record covers

At least 3.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.1 Mya to 7.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.75 Mya to 6.965 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiocene13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.6–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11.1 Mya7.9 Mya13.3 Mya6.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Blanus strauchi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

3 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

Gebeceler — 38.77°N, 30.74°E

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The named rock units Blanus strauchi 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.

Blanus strauchi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Blanus strauchi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Blanus strauchi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Blanus strauchi

Credit
Benny Trapp
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Blanus strauchi 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 itBlanus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bedriaga 1884