Eolacerta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EolacertidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
20 occurrences of Eolacerta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
20 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
4 formations
- Lignites de Soissonais Formation2
- Conglomérat de Cernay Formation1
- Tienen Formation · Landen Group1
- Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation1
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The named rock units Eolacerta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eolacerta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eolacerta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
384 taxa- Lophiodon remensis9 sites
- Eurohippus parvulus7 sites
- Necrosaurus7 sites
- Palaeotherium isselanum7 sites
- Dunnophis matronensis6 sites
- Geiseltaliellus longicaudus6 sites
- Propalaeotherium voigti6 sites
- Trionyx6 sites
- Allaeochelys5 sites
- Anguini5 sites
- Axestemys vittata5 sites
- Calamagras gallicus5 sites
- Diplocynodon5 sites
- Hyrachyus5 sites
- Neochelys eocaenica5 sites
- Rhinocerolophiodon buxovillanum5 sites
- Tinosaurus europeocaenus5 sites
- Allognathosuchus4 sites
- Amphiperca4 sites
- Amphisbaenidae4 sites
- Cyclurus kehreri4 sites
- Diacodexis varleti4 sites
- Gekkonidae4 sites
- Helodermatidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Eolacerta, 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
4 references- Zur Kenntnis der Sauria (Lacertilia) aus dem Eozän des Geiseltals (The Sauria (Lacertilia) from the Eocene of Geiseltal)11
- Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe7
- La Borie (Saint-Papoul, Aude) : un gisement exceptionnel dans l’Éocène basal du Sud de la France1
- La faune de Lacertilia (Reptilia, Squamata) de l’Éocène inférieur de Prémontré (Bassin de Paris, France)1
Each of the 20 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Eolacerta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Eolacerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eolacerta 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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What may have been alongside itEolacertidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nöth 1940