Elaphe nebraskensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- 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 3.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 4.7 Mya.
12 occurrences of Elaphe nebraskensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
12 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
5 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group3
- Fleming Formation2
- Fort Randall Formation1
- Ash Hollow Formation1
- Wood Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Elaphe nebraskensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elaphe nebraskensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Elaphe nebraskensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
309 taxa- Salvadora paleolineata8 sites
- Ambystoma minshalli6 sites
- Copemys longidens6 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis6 sites
- Emydinae6 sites
- Eucastor tortus6 sites
- Lampropeltis similis6 sites
- Mylagaulidae6 sites
- Neonatrix elongata6 sites
- Paleoheterodon tiheni6 sites
- Parvericius montanus6 sites
- Russellagus vonhofi6 sites
- Charina prebottae5 sites
- Geochelone5 sites
- Megasminthus tiheni5 sites
- Metechinus amplior5 sites
- Perognathus trojectioansrum5 sites
- Rana pipiens5 sites
- Sceloporus5 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus5 sites
- Bassariscus antiquus4 sites
- Bufo hibbardi4 sites
- Bufo valentinensis4 sites
- Domninoides valentinensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Elaphe nebraskensis, 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- The Hottell Ranch rhino quarries (basal Ogallala: medial Barstovian), Banner County, Nebraska. Part I: Geologic setting, faunal lists, lower vertebrates3
- Amphibians and reptiles from the Gulf Coast Miocene of Texas2
- Glad Tidings, a late middle Miocene herpetofauna from northeastern Nebraska1
- Hemphillian (late Miocene) snakes from Nebraska, with comments on Arikareean through Blancan snakes of midcontinental North America1
- A late Tertiary stream channel fauna from South Bijou Hill, South Dakota1
- Upper Miocene snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes) from Southeastern Nebraska1
- Reptiles of the Egelhoff local fauna (Upper Miocene) of Nebraska1
- Herpetofauna of the Wood Mountain Formation (Upper Miocene) of Saskatchewan.1
- Fossil snakes from the Valentine Formation of Nebraska1
Each of the 12 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.
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No picture of Elaphe nebraskensis 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 Elaphe nebraskensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elaphe nebraskensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Holman 1964