Salvator

Salvator is a genus of lizards known as tegus which belong to the family Teiidae. The genus is endemic to South America.

Salvator

Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
TupinambinaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Teiidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Teiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 400 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.58 Mya400 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Salvator 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

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

Tezanos Pinto — 32.07°S, 60.65°W

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The named rock units Salvator 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.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Salvator, 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

1 reference

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Salvator

Credit
Bernard DUPONT
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Salvator 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.

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 itTupinambinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumeril and Bibron 1839