Akidolestes cifelli
No picture of Akidolestes cifelli 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 Akidolestes cifelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AkidolestesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Akidolestes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 119.57 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Akidolestes cifelli on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group1
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The named rock units Akidolestes cifelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Akidolestes cifelli and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Akidolestes cifelli and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Chaoyangodens lii1 site
- Dalingheornis liweii1 site
- Dalinghosaurus longidigitus1 site
- Eogranivora edentulata1 site
- Eomaia scansoria1 site
- Euenantiornithes1 site
- Grabauornis lingyuanensis1 site
- Hongshanornis longicresta1 site
- Longicrusavis houi1 site
- Monjurosuchus splendens1 site
- Scansoriopteryx heilmanni1 site
- Sinobaatar lingyuanensis1 site
- Sinodelphys szalayi1 site
- Sinosauropteryx1 site
- Tianyuraptor ostromi1 site
- Yabeinosaurus robustus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Akidolestes cifelli, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Akidolestes cifelli 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 Akidolestes cifelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Akidolestes cifelli 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 itAkidolestes through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Li and Luo 2006