Sinomicrurus japonicus

Sinomicrurus japonicus, the Japanese coral snake, is a species of snake of the family Elapidae.

Sinomicrurus japonicus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SinomicrurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Elapidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Elapidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 1.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePleistocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePleistocene2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–929 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences929 ka–835 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences835 ka–742 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.08 Mya274 ka

1 occurrence of Sinomicrurus japonicus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1 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

Guga — 26.65°N, 127.96°E

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The named rock units Sinomicrurus japonicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sinomicrurus japonicus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sinomicrurus japonicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Sinomicrurus japonicus, 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 1 occurrence 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

Picture of Sinomicrurus japonicus

Credit
Mmsmr
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sinomicrurus japonicus 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Günther 1868)