Asioryctitheria
Asioryctitheria is an extinct order of early eutherians.

Robert Niedźwiedzki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- EutheriaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
23 occurrences of Asioryctitheria on record, most of them in the Late 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
23 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Bissekty Formation11
- Djadokhta Formation5
- Baruungoyot Formation4
- Aitym Formation1
- Ohyamashimo Formation · Sasayama Group1
- Bostobe Formation1
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The named rock units Asioryctitheria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asioryctitheria and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Asioryctitheria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
227 taxa- Aspanlestes aptap6 sites
- Ornithomimidae6 sites
- Parazhelestes mynbulakensis6 sites
- Asioryctes nemegtensis5 sites
- Richardoestesia asiatica5 sites
- Sulestes karakshi5 sites
- Theropoda5 sites
- Tyrannosauroidea5 sites
- Alectrosaurus4 sites
- Ankylosauridae4 sites
- Aralobatrachus robustus4 sites
- Caenagnathasia martinsoni4 sites
- Eutheria4 sites
- Gobiderma pulchra4 sites
- Kizylkuma antiqua4 sites
- Kulbeckia kulbecke4 sites
- Ornithopoda4 sites
- Theria4 sites
- Adamisaurus magnidentatus3 sites
- Amiinae3 sites
- Chulsanbaatar vulgaris3 sites
- Daulestes kulbeckensis3 sites
- Eoscapherpeton asiaticum3 sites
- Eoungulatum kudukensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Asioryctitheria, 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
15 references- Ungulate-like mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and a phylogenetic analysis of Ungulatomorpha3
- Preliminary description of two new eutherian genera from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia3
- First occurrence of the eutherian mammal Asioryctes nemegtensis from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Gobi Desert, Mongolia, and a revised alpha taxonomy based on the skull and dentition2
- Mammals from the Mesozoic of Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tadzhikistan2
- Novye mlekopitayushchie Mela Kyzylkumov [New mammals from the Cretaceous of Kyzyl-Kum]2
- Drevneishie mlekopitaiushchie SSSR [Ancient mammals of the USSR]2
- New mammal remains from the Late Cretaceous Bostobe Formation (northeast Aral Sea Region, Kazakhstan)1
- A new Early Cretaceous eutherian mammal from the Sasayama Group, Hyogo, Japan1
- Mammals from the Upper Cretaceous Aitym Formation, Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan1
- Earliest eutherian mammal skull, from the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) of Uzbekistan1
- Nessov, 19971
- Epipubic bones in eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia1
Each of the 23 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. 3 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 Asioryctitheria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Robert Niedźwiedzki
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Asioryctitheria 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 itEutheria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Novacek et al. 1997