Cholophidia
No picture of Cholophidia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cholophidia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SerpentesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.
13 occurrences of Cholophidia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
13 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Wadi Milk Formation3
- Continental Intercalaire Formation1
- Ifezouane Formation · Kem Kem Group1
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The named rock units Cholophidia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cholophidia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cholophidia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Serpentes4 sites
- Lapparentopheidae3 sites
- Theropoda3 sites
- Aniliidae2 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Eupodophis descouensi2 sites
- Hylaeobatis2 sites
- Lacertilia2 sites
- Lepidotes2 sites
- Madtsoiidae2 sites
- Neoceratodus africanus2 sites
- Stephanodus2 sites
- ? Colophidia indet.1 site
- Acanthochirana smithwoodwardi1 site
- Acrosphenodontia indet.1 site
- Actinastrum sp.1 site
- Aeger libanensis1 site
- Aesculipollis sp.1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Apateodus striatus1 site
- Aphanizocnemus libanensis1 site
- Apogonidarum1 site
- Ariadnaesporites1 site
- Asteracanthus aegyptiacus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cholophidia, 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
12 references- Mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian) snakes from Wadi Abu Hashim, Sudan: The earliest snake assemblage.2
- Novel findings of Late Cenomanian-Turonian Pachyophiid snakes, fishes and plants in the SE Bosnia-Herzegovina1
- Anuran Lissamphibian and Squamate Reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Deccan Intertrappean Sites in Central India, with a Review of Lissamphibian and Squamate Diversity in the Northward Drifting Indian Plate1
- The key to understanding the European Miocene Chalcides (Squamata, Scincidae) comes from Asia: the lizards of the East Siberian Tagay locality (Baikal Lake) in Russia1
- A new evidence for pachyostotic snake from Turonianof Bosnia-Herzegovina1
- New specimens of the fossil snake genus Eupodophis Rage and Escuillié, from the mid-Cretaceous of Lebanon1
- Un nouveau serpent bipède du Cénomanien (Crétacé). Implications phylétiques.1
- A dinosaur fauna from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of northern Sudan1
- Les plus anciens serpents (Reptilia, Squamata) connus. Mise au point sur l'âge géologique des serpents de la partie moyenne du Crétacé1
- Un Serpent terrestre dans le Crétacé inférieur du Sahara [A terrestrial snake in the Lower Cretaceous of the Sahara]1
- Mesophis nopcsai n. g., n. sp.; ein neues schlangenähnliches Reptil aus der unteren Kreide (Neocom) von Bilek-Selista (Ost-Hercegovina). [Mesophis nopcsai n. g., n. sp.; a new snakelike reptile from the Lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) of Bilek-Selista (East Hercegovina)]1
- Eidolosaurus und Pachyophis, Zwei neue Neocom-Reptilien1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Cholophidia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cholophidia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cholophidia 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSerpentes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nopcsa 1923)