Cyclura
Cyclura is a genus of lizards in the family Iguanidae. Member species of this genus are commonly known as "cycluras" and only occur on islands in the West Indies. Rock iguanas have a high degree of endemism, with a single species or subspecies originating on an individual island.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- rock iguanaPBDB
- Sits inside
- IguanidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Iguanidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Iguanidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Cyclura 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
19 occurrences- Pleistocene30%
- Holocene70%
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.
Cyclura and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cyclura and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
206 taxa- Geocapromys13 sites
- Capromys11 sites
- Anolis8 sites
- Macrotus waterhousii8 sites
- Osteopilus septentrionalis8 sites
- Alsophis cantherigerus6 sites
- Nesophontes6 sites
- Anolis conspersus5 sites
- Anolis sagrei5 sites
- Crocodylus rhombifer5 sites
- Leiocephalus5 sites
- Athene cunicularia4 sites
- Chiroptera4 sites
- Coereba flaveola4 sites
- Corvus nasicus4 sites
- Cubophis vudii4 sites
- Eptesicus fuscus4 sites
- Patagioenas leucocephala4 sites
- Psittacus leucocephalus4 sites
- Zenaida aurita4 sites
- Ameiva3 sites
- Aristelliger praesignis3 sites
- Aves3 sites
- Brachyphylla nana3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Cyclura, 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
8 references- Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands6
- The Cuban Crocodile, Crocodylus rhombifer, from Late Quaternary Fossil Deposits on Grand Cayman4
- Holocene vertebrates from a dry cave on Eleuthera Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas3
- Studies on Fossil and Extant Vertebrates from San Salvador (Watling's) Island, Bahamas2
- The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) from late Quaternary fossil deposits in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands1
- First Report of a Quaternary Crocodylian from a Cave Deposit in Northern Puerto Rico1
- Late Prehistoric Lucayan occupation and subsistence on Middle Caicos Island, northern West Indies1
- Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles from New Providence Island, Bahamas1
Each of the 19 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 content1
Picture of Cyclura
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- -- Duden-Dödel 19:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyclura was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cyclura”
- 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 itIguanidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Harlan 1824)