Vipera (Pelias)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ViperaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
35 occurrences of Vipera (Pelias) on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
35 occurrences- Miocene16%
- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene59%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Vipera (Pelias) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vipera (Pelias) and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Vipera (Pelias) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
273 taxa- Natrix natrix14 sites
- Anguis fragilis13 sites
- Lacerta13 sites
- Bufo bufo12 sites
- Rana12 sites
- Colubridae11 sites
- Coronella austriaca11 sites
- Elaphe longissima10 sites
- Rana temporaria10 sites
- Pseudopus9 sites
- Beremendia fissidens6 sites
- Citellus6 sites
- Elaphe6 sites
- Bufo5 sites
- Eryx5 sites
- Lacertidae5 sites
- Natrix5 sites
- Sorex minutus5 sites
- Triturus vulgaris5 sites
- Bufo viridis4 sites
- Emys orbicularis4 sites
- Lacerta agilis4 sites
- Mimomys4 sites
- Neomys4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Vipera (Pelias), 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
12 references- Late Cainozoic localities of snakes and lizards of Ukraine10
- Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe8
- Fossil snakes from Poland8
- Small vertebrates from the Late Pliocene Las Higueruelas locality of central Spain with new biochronological and palaeoecological inferences1
- Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Miocene of Fălciu (Eastern Romania)1
- Late Pleistocene Squamate Reptiles from the Baranica Cave near Knjaževac (Eastern Serbia)1
- Neogene amphibians and reptiles (Caudata, Anura, Gekkota, Lacertilia, and Testudines) from the south of Western Siberia, Russia, and Northeastern Kazakhstan1
- Middle to Late Pleistocene herpetofauna from Scladina and Sous-Saint-Paul caves (Namur, Belgium)1
- Anurans and squamates from the Lower Pliocene (MN 14) Osztramos 1 locality (Northern Hungary)1
- Magneto- and cyclostratigraphy and mammal-fauna’s of the Pleistocene lacustrine Megalopolis Basin, Peloponnesos, Greece1
- Insularity and Quaternary vertebrate faunas in Britain and Ireland1
- The Vertebrata of the Forest Bed Series of Norfolk and Suffolk1
Each of the 35 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.
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No picture of Vipera (Pelias) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Vipera (Pelias), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vipera (Pelias) 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.
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What may have been alongside itVipera through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Merrem 1820)