Simoliophiidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphidiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Simoliophiidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
15 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Aoufous Formation · Kem Kem Group2
- Mizdah Formation1
- La Cabaña Formation1
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The named rock units Simoliophiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Simoliophiidae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Simoliophiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Simoliophis rochebrunei11 sites
- Haimirichia amonensis8 sites
- Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi7 sites
- Scapanorhynchus minimus7 sites
- Squalicorax7 sites
- Dromaeosauridae6 sites
- Helochelys danubina6 sites
- Tribodus morlati6 sites
- Cantioscyllium5 sites
- Carcharodontosauridae5 sites
- Cenocarcharias tenuiplicatus5 sites
- Crocodyliformes5 sites
- Hamrabatis bernardezi5 sites
- Hybodus5 sites
- Protolamna5 sites
- Ptychotrygon5 sites
- Ptychotrygonoides pouiti5 sites
- Testudines5 sites
- Truyolsodontos magnus5 sites
- Turoniabatis cappettai5 sites
- Archaeolamna4 sites
- Chiloscyllium4 sites
- Cretodus semiplicatus4 sites
- Iguanodontoidea4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Simoliophiidae, 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
9 references- The mid-Cretaceous snake Simoliophis rochebrunei Sauvage, 1880 (Squamata: Ophidia) from its type area (Charentes, southwestern France): Redescription, distribution, and palaeoecology4
- Anuran and squamate remains from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Charentes, western France2
- Amphibians and squamates from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Morocco2
- Un faciès de type falun dans le Cénomanien basal de Charente-Maritime (France)2
- Vertebrates from the middle?-late Cenomanian La Cabana Formation (Asturias, northern Spain): Palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographic implications1
- Cenomanian vertebrate assemblages from southwestern France: a new insight into the European mid-Cretaceous continental fauna1
- Un nouveau gisement à microrestes de vertébrés continentaux et littoraux dans le Cénomanien inférieur de Fouras (Charente-Maritime, Sud-Ouest de la France) [A new continental and coastal vertebrate locality in the Early Cenomanian of Fouras (Charente-Maritime, southwestern France]1
- Découverte d'un dépôt paralique à bois fossiles, ambre insectifère et restes d'Iguanodontidae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) dans le Cénomanien inférieur de Fouras (Charente-Maritime, Sud-Ouest de la France)1
- A new locality of Late Cretaceous snakes, mammals and other vertebrates in Africa (western Libya)1
Each of the 15 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
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No picture of Simoliophiidae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Simoliophiidae 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 Simoliophiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Simoliophiidae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOphidia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.