Typhlops

Typhlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to the West Indies. Some species which were formerly placed in the genus Typhlops have been moved to the genera Afrotyphlops, Amerotyphlops, Anilios, Antillotyphlops, Argyrophis, Cubatyphlops, Indotyphlops, Letheobia, Madatyphlops, Malayotyphlops, and Xerotyphlops.

Typhlops

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
blind snakePBDB
Sits inside
TyphlopidaePBDB
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 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Typhlops 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

14 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

3 formations

Alachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°ECórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°W

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The named rock units Typhlops 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.

Typhlops and its relatives

Miocene

Where Typhlops and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

534 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Typhlops, 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

11 references

Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Typhlops

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. AshLin assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Notoryctes typhlops · UMZC:Vertebrates:A5. 1/1

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

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