Crotalus viridis

Crotalus viridis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
prairie rattlesnakePBDB
Sits inside
CrotalusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 4.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 9.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 13 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.3–990 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences990 ka–660 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences660 ka–330 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences330 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.7 Mya129 ka9.9 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Crotalus viridis 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

13 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

6 formations

Rexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°W

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The named rock units Crotalus viridis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crotalus viridis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Crotalus viridis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Crotalus viridis, 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

7 references

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 content2

Picture of Crotalus viridis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Crotalus viridis · UMMZ:Herps:230391

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. Rafinesque 1818