Vipera platyspondyla
No picture of Vipera platyspondyla 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 platyspondyla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ViperaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 920 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.9 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Vipera platyspondyla on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Vipera platyspondyla and its relatives
MioceneWhere Vipera platyspondyla and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Bavarioboa hermi2 sites
- Falseryx petersbuchi2 sites
- Palaeonatrix lehmani2 sites
- Vipera antiqua2 sites
- Albanerpeton inexpectatum1 site
- Amblyolacerta dolnicensis1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Blanus gracilis1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Cainotherium bavaricum1 site
- Chainodus intercedens1 site
- Chamaeleo1 site
- Chamaeleo andrusovi1 site
- Chamaeleonidae1 site
- Coluber caspioides1 site
- Coluber dolnicensis1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Colubroidea1 site
- Dinosorex zapfei1 site
- Elapidae1 site
- Eoanilius1 site
- Florinia stehlini1 site
- Galerix aurelianensis1 site
- Heterosorex neumayrianus aff. subsequens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Vipera platyspondyla, 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
2 references- Description of Miocene snake from Petersbuch 2 with comments on the lower and middle Miocene ophidian faunas of southern Germany.1
- Snakes from the Lower Miocene Locality of Dolnice (Czechoslovakia)1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Vipera platyspondyla 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 platyspondyla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vipera platyspondyla 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVipera through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Szyndlar 1987