Podarcis tiliguerta
The Tyrrhenian wall lizard is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is native to the islands Corsica and Sardinia and their associated islets. There are ten recognized subspecies.

Quentin Scouflaire · CC BY-SA 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
- PodarcisPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Lacertidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Lacertidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Podarcis tiliguerta on record. 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- Pleistocene40%
- Holocene60%
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 the same rock
111 taxa- Bufo viridis5 sites
- Discoglossus5 sites
- Episoriculus corsicanus5 sites
- Microtus (Tyrrhenicola) henseli5 sites
- Prolagus sardus5 sites
- Rhagamys orthodon5 sites
- Coluber4 sites
- Natrix natrix4 sites
- Archaeolacerta bedriagae3 sites
- Bubo insularis3 sites
- Pyrrhocorax graculus3 sites
- Tyto alba3 sites
- Aquila chrysaetos2 sites
- Asio flammeus2 sites
- Carduelis carduelis2 sites
- Chloris chloris2 sites
- Coccothraustes coccothraustes2 sites
- Columba livia2 sites
- Corvus corone2 sites
- Corvus monedula2 sites
- Erithacus rubecula2 sites
- Fringilla coelebs2 sites
- Hyla2 sites
- Parus major2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Podarcis tiliguerta, 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- Biostratigraphy of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals in Corsica and the role of man in the Holocene faunal turnover4
- Castiglione 3, un nouveau remplissage fosilifere d'age Pleistocene moyen dans le karst de la region d'Oletta (Haute-Corse)1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Podarcis tiliguerta
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Quentin Scouflaire
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Podarcis tiliguerta 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.
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 itPodarcis through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gmelin 1789