Paraxenophis spanios
No picture of Paraxenophis spanios was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paraxenophis spanios firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaxenophisPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8.725 Mya and 3.55 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paraxenophis spanios on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paraxenophis spanios has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraxenophis spanios and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Paraxenophis spanios and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Apodemus3 sites
- Lacertidae3 sites
- Pelophylax3 sites
- Periergophis micros3 sites
- Ranidae3 sites
- Alilepus2 sites
- Anguinae2 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Bufotes viridis2 sites
- Colubriformes2 sites
- Hyla2 sites
- Hyla arborea2 sites
- Latonia2 sites
- Latonia ragei2 sites
- Natrix aff. rudabanyaensis2 sites
- Ommatotriton2 sites
- Pelobates aff. praefuscus2 sites
- Prolagus2 sites
- Pseudopus2 sites
- Rana2 sites
- Serpentes2 sites
- Squamata2 sites
- Testudinoidea2 sites
- Urodela2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paraxenophis spanios, 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- New diverse amphibian and reptile assemblages from the late Neogene of northern Greece provide novel insights into the emergence of extant herpetofaunas of the southern Balkans2
- Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene locality of Maramena (Greece), the most diverse European herpetofauna at the Miocene/Pliocene transition boundary1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Paraxenophis spanios was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paraxenophis spanios firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Paraxenophis spanios 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 itParaxenophis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Georgalis et al. 2019