Cercartetus nanus

The eastern pygmy possum is a diprotodont marsupial of south-eastern Australia. Occurring from southern Queensland to eastern South Australia and also Tasmania, it is found in a range of habitats, including rainforest, sclerophyll forest, woodland and heath.

Cercartetus nanus

John Gould · Public Domain · 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
Also called
eastern pygmy possumPBDB
Sits inside
CercartetusPBDB
Diet
insectivore, frugivorePBDB, for Burramyidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Burramyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 14 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Cercartetus nanus 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

14 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.

Cercartetus nanus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cercartetus nanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Cercartetus nanus, 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

8 references

Each of the 14 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 Cercartetus nanus

Credit
John Gould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cercartetus nanus 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 itCercartetus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Desmarest 1818)