Amphilemuridae

The Amphilemuridae are a family of extinct mammals belonging to the order Eulipotyphla, from the Eocene of Europe and North America.

Amphilemuridae

Ghedoghedo · 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
MacroscelideaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Macroscelidea
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Macroscelidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 24.7 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 90 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 85 of 90 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 90 occurrencesOligocene60–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 8 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 12 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 12 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 12 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51.1 Mya29.5 Mya59.9 Mya24 Mya

90 occurrences of Amphilemuridae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

90 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

27 formations

Willwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WUinta — 40.11°N, 109.22°WUinta — 40.18°N, 109.32°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WTienen — 50.33°N, 4.28°ETienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°EBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°EAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WVaugirard — 48.81°N, 2.24°EWutu — 36.52°N, 118.92°EDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.73°ECreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ETielt — 51.01°N, 3.23°EMarnes de Dormans — 49.08°N, 3.47°E

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The named rock units Amphilemuridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphilemuridae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Amphilemuridae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,356 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Amphilemuridae, 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

48 references

Each of the 90 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. 36 further references are not listed. 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 Amphilemuridae

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

No 3D scan of Amphilemuridae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hill 1953)