Scincoidea

Scincoidea

Uncredited · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
SquamataPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 457 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 25 of 457 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 43 of 457 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 71 of 457 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 457 occurrencesEocene — about 94 of 457 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 457 occurrencesMiocene — about 81 of 457 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 457 occurrencesPleistocene — about 65 of 457 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 12 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 11 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 14 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–120 Mya — about 12 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 7 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 5 occurrences109–103 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 8 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 11 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 13 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 17 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 14 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 7 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 21 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 11 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 22 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 37 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 13 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 50 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 22 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 115 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

457 occurrences of Scincoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

457 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

101 formations

Friars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WMorrison — 41.89°N, 106.00°WMorrison — 44.46°N, 104.73°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 40.50°N, 109.17°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WLulworth — 50.58°N, 1.95°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.17°N, 10.10°EDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°EDjadokhta — 44.00°N, 104.00°EDjadokhta — 44.16°N, 103.69°EStraight Cliffs — 37.60°N, 111.97°WStraight Cliffs — 37.64°N, 112.06°WStraight Cliffs — 37.49°N, 111.89°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBaruungoyot — 43.49°N, 101.15°EBaruungoyot — 43.15°N, 99.45°EBaruungoyot — 43.25°N, 99.75°ECloverly — 45.20°N, 109.00°WCloverly — 45.10°N, 106.90°WCloverly — 44.51°N, 107.90°WCloverly — 44.50°N, 107.82°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WAguja — 29.34°N, 103.59°WPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°ECedar Mountain — 38.66°N, 111.24°WCedar Mountain — 38.94°N, 111.08°WCedar Mountain — 38.98°N, 111.04°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WNaturita — 37.80°N, 111.50°WNaturita — 37.65°N, 112.97°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WKaiparowits — 37.40°N, 111.20°WPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°EFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 46.05°N, 104.48°WAlcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°WCollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°ENamba — 31.10°S, 140.23°EWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°W

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The named rock units Scincoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 174 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scincoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Scincoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,281 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 297 sites for Scincoidea, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

204 references

Each of the 457 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. 192 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Scincoidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Scincoidea indet. · isem:acq:UM-COS-1019

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 itSquamata through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppel 1811)