Psammophis

No picture of Psammophis was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Psammophis itself, so it was not used. 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 Psammophis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmmodiscidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ammodiscidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ammodiscidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 287 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences298.9 Mya11.63 Mya330 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Psammophis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrences

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

Saginaw — 42.75°N, 84.77°W

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The named rock units Psammophis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Psammophis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Psammophis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Psammophis, 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

3 references

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

Media content1

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Demansia psammophis · nmv:herpetology:D76147

No picture of Psammophis was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Psammophis itself, so it was not used.

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 Psammophis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAmmodiscidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fitzinger 1826