Bovoidea

Searched as Booidea. The Paleobiology Database treats Bovoidea as the accepted name.

The Booidea, also known as booid snakes, are a superfamily of snakes that contains boas and other closely related boa-like snakes. As of 2017, Booidea contains 61 species, including the eponymous neotropical Boa constrictor, anacondas, and smaller tree and rainbow boas as well as several genera of booid snakes from various locations around the world: bevel-nosed boas or keel-scaled boas (Candoia) from New Guinea and Melanesia, Old World sand boas (Eryx) from Northeast Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, rubber boas (Charina) and rosy boas (Lichanura) from North America, neotropical dwarf boas (Ungaliophis) and the Oaxacan dwarf boa (Exiliboa) from Central America, Madagascan boas or Malagasy boas from Madagascar, and the Calabar python (Calabaria) from tropical West-Central Africa.

Bovoidea

Tod Baker from Tianjin, China · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
PecoraPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 9 of 7143 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 7143 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 180 of 7143 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 102 of 7143 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1335 of 7143 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 973 of 7143 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3870 of 7143 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 13 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 15 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 21 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 19 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 16 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 16 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 25 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 54 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 29 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 17 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 26 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 41 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 59 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 102 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 163 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 223 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 306 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 423 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 887 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 4667 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

7,143 occurrences of Bovoidea 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

7,143 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

354 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.86°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.23°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.34°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.95°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 3.73°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.70°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.57°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°ENachukui — 3.88°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 4.00°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.23°N, 35.81°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.11°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.67°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.41°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.92°ENachukui — 3.68°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 3.95°N, 35.45°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.01°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EVogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.01°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.23°S, 36.19°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EOlduvai — 2.97°S, 35.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EOlorgesailie — 1.57°S, 36.44°EChiwondo — 9.92°S, 34.92°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 9.83°S, 34.83°EChiwondo — 10.33°S, 34.17°EChiwondo — 10.00°S, 33.92°EChiwondo — 10.05°S, 33.96°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.45°EWehaietu — 10.73°N, 40.42°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.47°EWehaietu — 10.72°N, 40.50°EWehaietu — 10.32°N, 40.55°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°EMytilinii — 37.74°N, 26.89°ENgorora — 0.90°N, 35.85°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°EWembere-Manonga — 3.86°S, 33.71°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.85°EWembere-Manonga — 4.03°S, 33.77°EWembere-Manonga — 3.92°S, 33.87°EWembere-Manonga — 3.09°S, 33.73°EChemoigut — 0.65°N, 36.20°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EGebel Silsila-YCS — 24.50°N, 33.00°EValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 40.10°N, 98.50°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.37°N, 40.23°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°E

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The named rock units Bovoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 330 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3,573 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bovoidea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bovoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 593 sites for Bovoidea, and this reads 240 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

1,249 references

Each of the 7,143 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. 1,237 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 content1

Picture of Bovoidea

Credit
Tod Baker from Tianjin, China
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1872