Barinya wangala
Barinya is a fossil genus from the marsupial family Malleodectidae. It is the only genus in the subfamily Barinyainae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BarinyaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Dasyuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 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 Barinya wangala 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.
Barinya wangala and its relatives
MioceneWhere Barinya wangala and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Ganguroo bilamina2 sites
- Brachipposideros1 site
- Brevipalatus mcculloughi1 site
- Cookeroo hortusensis1 site
- Gumardee keari1 site
- Gumardee webbi1 site
- Hipposideros bernardsigei1 site
- Macroderma1 site
- Microleo attenboroughi1 site
- Morelia riversleighensis1 site
- Nimiokoala greystanesi1 site
- Pygopus hortulanus1 site
- Rhinonycteris1 site
- Riversleigha williamsi1 site
- Thylacinus macknessi1 site
- Xenorhinos halli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Barinya wangala, 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
2 references- A new hipposiderid genus (Microchiroptera) from an early Miocene bat community in Australia1
- The geologically oldest dasyurid, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, North-West Queensland1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Barinya wangala was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Barinya wangala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Barinya”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBarinya through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wroe 1999