Hoplodactylus

Hoplodactylus is a genus of geckos in the family Diplodactylidae. The genus is endemic to New Zealand, one of the seven genera of geckos found only in New Zealand. Hoplodactylus comprises two species of large to gigantic brownish lizards.

Hoplodactylus

Jennifer Moore · CC BY 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
GekkonidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Gekkonidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Gekkonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 129 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 5 of 27 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 22 of 27 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

27 occurrences of Hoplodactylus 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

27 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.

Hoplodactylus and its relatives

Holocene

Where Hoplodactylus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Hoplodactylus, 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

2 references

Each of the 27 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Hoplodactylus

Credit
Jennifer Moore
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Hoplodactylus duvaucelii · UMMZ:herps:129351

The description on this site

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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 itGekkonidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fitzinger 1843