Phyllodactylus
Phyllodactylus is a genus of geckos distributed in South America and Central America, and as far north as the southern United States. They are commonly known as "leaf-toed geckos" in their native range, and otherwise as American leaf-toed geckos to distinguish them from unrelated genera with similar feet.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- leaf-toed geckoPBDB
- 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 least 72 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Phyllodactylus 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous20%
- Holocene80%
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 Phyllodactylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Alsophis4 sites
- Aves4 sites
- Geochelone elephantopus4 sites
- Geospiza fuliginosa4 sites
- Geospiza magnirostris4 sites
- Mimus trifasciatus4 sites
- Passeriformes4 sites
- Rattus rattus4 sites
- Tropidurus4 sites
- Zenaida galapagoensis4 sites
- Geospiza3 sites
- Geospiza fortis3 sites
- Mus musculus3 sites
- Camarhynchus pauper2 sites
- Certhidea olivacea2 sites
- Geospiza difficilis2 sites
- Lasiurus borealis2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Myiarchus magnirostris2 sites
- Nyctanassa violacea2 sites
- Albanerpeton galaktion1 site
- Alphadon1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Ardeidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Phyllodactylus, 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- Holocene Vertebrate Fossils from Isla Floreana, Galapagos4
- Paleoecology of the Gaddis Site in the Upper Cretaceous Aguja Formation, Terlingua, Texas1
Each of the 5 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 Phyllodactylus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phyllodactylus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itGekkonidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1828