Elaphe guttata

No picture of Elaphe guttata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Elaphe guttata itself, so it was not used. 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 Elaphe guttata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
corn snakePBDB
Sits inside
ElaphePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Elaphe
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Elaphe
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 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 14 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 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 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.3–990 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences990 ka–660 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences660 ka–330 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences330 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.7 Mya129 ka9.9 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Elaphe guttata 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

14 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

1 formation

Long Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°W

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The named rock units Elaphe guttata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elaphe guttata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Elaphe guttata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

469 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Elaphe guttata, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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

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No picture of Elaphe guttata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Elaphe guttata itself, so it was not used.

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 Elaphe guttata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Elaphe guttata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)