Callopistes

Callopistes is a genus of lizards in the family Teiidae. The genus contains two extant species, which are native to Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, as well as two fossil species found in Argentina.

Callopistes

Alessandro Catenazzi · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
TupinambiniPBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Teiidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Teiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 21 Mya to 3.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPliocene22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17.5 Mya5 Mya21.5 Mya3.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Callopistes 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

2 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

2 formations

Monte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WChichinales — 39.15°S, 67.68°W

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The named rock units Callopistes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Callopistes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Callopistes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Callopistes, 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

Each of the 2 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 content2

Picture of Callopistes

Credit
Alessandro Catenazzi
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Callopistes maculatus · FMNH:Amphibians and Reptiles:53726

The description on this site

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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 itTupinambini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gravenhorst 1838