Parophisaurus pawneensis
No picture of Parophisaurus pawneensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Parophisaurus pawneensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParophisaurusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Parophisaurus pawneensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
11 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Parophisaurus pawneensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parophisaurus pawneensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Parophisaurus pawneensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Adjidaumo minutus1 site
- Agnotocastor readingi1 site
- Hesperocyon gregarius1 site
- Leptauchenia decora1 site
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii1 site
- Miniochoerus gracilis1 site
- Peltosaurus1 site
- Perchoerus nanus1 site
- Stibarus obtusilobus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Parophisaurus pawneensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Parophisaurus pawneensis (Gilmore, 1928) new genus of anguid lizard from the middle Oligocene of North America10
- Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards1
Each of the 11 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 Parophisaurus pawneensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Parophisaurus pawneensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parophisaurus pawneensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itParophisaurus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gilmore 1928)