Cubophis vudii
Cubophis vudii, the Bahamian racer, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to The Bahamas.
Thomas Brown · CC BY 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
- CubophisPBDB
- 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.
6 occurrences of Cubophis vudii on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene32%
- Holocene68%
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.
Cubophis vudii and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cubophis vudii and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Anolis5 sites
- Chiroptera4 sites
- Cyclura4 sites
- Geocapromys4 sites
- Osteopilus septentrionalis4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Psittacus leucocephalus4 sites
- Ameiva3 sites
- Chilabothrus3 sites
- Leiocephalus3 sites
- Macrotus waterhousii3 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala3 sites
- Anolis sagrei2 sites
- Athene cunicularia2 sites
- Corvus nasicus2 sites
- Epicrates2 sites
- Eptesicus fuscus2 sites
- Falco sparverius2 sites
- Mabuya2 sites
- Nyctanassa violacea2 sites
- Saurothera merlini2 sites
- Sphaerodactylus2 sites
- Tarentola2 sites
- Typhlops2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cubophis vudii, 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
3 references- Holocene vertebrates from a dry cave on Eleuthera Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas4
- Late Pleistocene snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Abaco, The Bahamas1
- Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles from New Providence Island, Bahamas1
Each of the 6 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 Cubophis vudii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Thomas Brown
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cubophis vudii 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.
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 itCubophis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1862)