Zamenis

Zamenis is a genus of Old World non-venomous snakes in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. Species of the genus Zamenis are native to Europe and the Middle East.

Zamenis

Liné1 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
ColubridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Colubridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Colubridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 22.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence785 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences22.4 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Zamenis 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

13 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.

Zamenis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Zamenis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Zamenis, 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 13 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 Zamenis

Credit
Liné1
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Zamenis 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

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 itColubridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagler 1830