Oligosoma lineoocellatum
Oligosoma lineoocellatum, commonly known as the Canterbury spotted skink, is one of a species complex of several related spotted skink species from New Zealand.
Carey Knox · CC0 · 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
- OligosomaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Scincidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Scincidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Oligosoma lineoocellatum 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
10 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Oligosoma lineoocellatum and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Oligosoma lineoocellatum and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Cyanoramphus9 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae8 sites
- Hoplodactylus maculatus8 sites
- Rattus exulans8 sites
- Passer domesticus7 sites
- Aegotheles novaezealandiae6 sites
- Petroica australis6 sites
- Sphenodon6 sites
- Sturnus vulgaris6 sites
- Callaeas cinereus5 sites
- Coenocorypha aucklandica5 sites
- Mus musculus5 sites
- Mystacina robusta5 sites
- Oligosoma nigriplantare5 sites
- Petroica macrocephala5 sites
- Rhipidura fuliginosa5 sites
- Turnagra capensis5 sites
- Alauda arvensis4 sites
- Anthornis melanura4 sites
- Carduelis carduelis4 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Megalurus punctatus4 sites
- Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Xenicus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Oligosoma lineoocellatum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 10 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 content1
Picture of Oligosoma lineoocellatum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Carey Knox
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Oligosoma lineoocellatum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOligosoma through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duméril and Duméril 1851)