Gekkota

Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the suborder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates. They range from 1.6 to 67 centimetres in length. They are the most species-rich group of lizards, with nearly 2,000 different species of geckos existing.

Gekkota

Uncredited · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
GekkonomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 216 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 216 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 216 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 216 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 216 occurrencesEocene — about 44 of 216 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 216 occurrencesMiocene — about 46 of 216 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 216 occurrencesPleistocene — about 24 of 216 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–51 Mya — about 7 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 23 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 15 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 23 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 103 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

216 occurrences of Gekkota on record. 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

216 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

39 formations

Perriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°EPerriere — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°ECollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°EFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WBannockburn — 44.91°S, 169.86°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EDzunbain — 42.45°N, 102.42°EJbel Guersif — 31.61°N, 5.66°WTienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°EQuercy Phosphorites — 44.27°N, 1.63°EEl Mamey — 19.45°N, 70.70°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ELegetet — 0.18°S, 35.27°EForest Marble — 51.87°N, 1.27°WTwo Medicine — 47.81°N, 112.18°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EIlek — 55.90°N, 87.96°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EDjadokhta — 44.16°N, 103.69°ESilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WPerfugas — 40.72°N, 9.10°EWiesbaden — 50.04°N, 8.27°EElisabeth Bay — 26.98°S, 15.27°E

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The named rock units Gekkota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 157 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

2,825 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Gekkota, 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

103 references

Each of the 216 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. 91 further references are not listed. 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 Gekkota

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gekkota 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.

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What may have been alongside itGekkonomorpha through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cuvier 1817)