Celestus crusculus
Celestus crusculus, the Jamaican galliwasp or Garman's galliwasp, is a species of lizard of the Diploglossidae family. It is found in Jamaica.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Garman's galliwaspPBDB
- Sits inside
- CelestusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Celestus crusculus 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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.
Celestus crusculus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Celestus crusculus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Anolis sagrei2 sites
- Aristelliger praesignis2 sites
- Athene cunicularia2 sites
- Brachyphylla nana2 sites
- Capromys2 sites
- Geocapromys2 sites
- Macrotus waterhousii2 sites
- Nesophontes2 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri2 sites
- Charadrius vociferus1 site
- Coccyzus minor1 site
- Coereba flaveola1 site
- Colaptes auratus1 site
- Columbina passerina1 site
- Cyclura nubila1 site
- Elaenia martinica1 site
- Erophylla sezekorni1 site
- Eudocimus albus1 site
- Gallinago1 site
- Gallinago kakuki1 site
- Geotrygon chrysia1 site
- Icterus1 site
- Leiocephalus carinatus1 site
- Melopyrrha latirostris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Celestus crusculus, 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 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 content1
Picture of Celestus crusculus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- compiled by rbrausse with Quantum GIS Map data: Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalear…
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Celestus crusculus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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
- 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 itCelestus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Garman 1887