Tarentola
Tarentola is a genus of geckos, commonly known as wall geckos.
Babo · Public Domain · 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- Also called
- wall geckoPBDB
- Sits inside
- GekkonidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Gekkonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Gekkonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Tarentola 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
8 occurrences- Miocene13%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene34%
- Holocene38%
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 the same rock
191 taxa- Lacertidae4 sites
- Vipera4 sites
- Agamidae3 sites
- Anolis3 sites
- Bufo bufo3 sites
- Chilabothrus3 sites
- Chiroptera3 sites
- Gekkonidae3 sites
- Geocapromys3 sites
- Leiocephalus3 sites
- Malpolon monspessulanus3 sites
- Rhinechis scalaris3 sites
- Serpentes3 sites
- Apodemus2 sites
- Apodemus mystacinus2 sites
- Athene noctua2 sites
- Blanus cinereus2 sites
- Colubridae2 sites
- Colubrinae2 sites
- Coronella girondica2 sites
- Coturnix coturnix2 sites
- Crocidura suaveolens2 sites
- Cubophis vudii2 sites
- Felis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Tarentola, 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
5 references- Holocene vertebrates from a dry cave on Eleuthera Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas3
- Catalogue of Spanish Plio-Pleistocene amphibians and squamate reptiles from the Museu de Geologia de Barcelona2
- On the fossil record of the Gekkota1
- New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, Southern Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic cave site1
- Une faune tres diversifee du Pleistocene inferieur de la Sierra de Quibas (province de Murcia, Espagne)1
Each of the 8 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. 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 Tarentola
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Babo
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tarentola 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Tarentola”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGekkonidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1825