Serpentes

Serpentes

Michael Allen Smith from Seattle, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
Also called
snakePBDB
Sits inside
OphidiaPBDB
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 1 of 3517 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 3517 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 3517 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 163 of 3517 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 49 of 3517 occurrencesEocene — about 426 of 3517 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 171 of 3517 occurrencesMiocene — about 1136 of 3517 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 355 of 3517 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1088 of 3517 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–143 Mya — about 4 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences109–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–97 Mya — about 11 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 11 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 20 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 19 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 61 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 51 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 27 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 82 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 95 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 77 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 169 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 81 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 111 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 215 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 544 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 349 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 1582 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

3,517 occurrences of Serpentes on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

3,517 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

316 formations

Ash Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.17°N, 10.10°EKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WRexroad — 37.10°N, 100.90°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WMaevarano — 15.90°S, 46.58°EMaevarano — 15.79°S, 46.52°EMaevarano — 15.73°S, 46.60°EMaevarano — 15.98°S, 46.05°EMaevarano — 16.12°S, 45.74°EArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WFleming — 30.70°N, 94.70°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.80°N, 94.30°WFleming — 30.63°N, 95.01°WFleming — 30.68°N, 95.05°WAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.27°N, 110.34°WBridger — 41.04°N, 110.23°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.28°N, 110.00°WPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°ENsungwe — 8.93°S, 33.20°ELong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WWadi Milk — 20.00°N, 30.00°EWadi Milk — 16.70°N, 31.14°EAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WElisabeth Bay — 26.96°S, 15.30°EElisabeth Bay — 26.91°S, 15.21°EBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WCambay Shale — 21.33°N, 72.98°ECambay Shale — 21.40°N, 73.08°ECambay Shale — 21.35°N, 73.07°EBrule — 42.88°N, 103.58°WBrule — 40.94°N, 103.36°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 40.74°N, 103.19°WBrule — 45.50°N, 103.10°WBrule — 40.93°N, 103.32°WVillavieja — 3.26°N, 75.17°WVillavieja — 3.23°N, 75.14°WVillavieja — 3.25°N, 75.17°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WOgallala — 39.80°N, 99.40°W

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The named rock units Serpentes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 292 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,067 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Serpentes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Serpentes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,319 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 663 sites for Serpentes, and this reads 240 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

796 references

Each of the 3,517 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. 784 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 content1

Picture of Serpentes

Credit
Michael Allen Smith from Seattle, USA
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Serpentes 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)