Chunia illuminata
No picture of Chunia illuminata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Chunia illuminata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChuniaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
- Length
- 40 cmWikidata
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
3 occurrences of Chunia illuminata on record. 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Chunia illuminata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Miralina minor2 sites
- Obdurodon insignis2 sites
- Anatidae1 site
- Archaeoceratodus djelleh1 site
- Archaeoceratodus rowleyi1 site
- Archaeoceratodus theganus1 site
- Australosuchus clarkae1 site
- Australotadorna alecwilsoni1 site
- Burhinidae1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Darcius duggani1 site
- Ektopodon1 site
- Ektopodon litolophus1 site
- Ektopodon serratus1 site
- Emydura1 site
- Eurhinodelphinidae1 site
- Ilaria illumidens1 site
- Ilariidae1 site
- Kyeema mahoneyi1 site
- Macropodidae1 site
- Madakoala devisi1 site
- Meiolaniidae1 site
- Mioceratodus anemosyrus1 site
- Mioceratodus diaphorus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chunia illuminata, 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
3 references- Further Ektopodontidae (Phalangeroidea, Mammalia) from southwestern Victoria1
- A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia1
- Land Mammal Biostratigraphy and Magnetostratigraphy of the Etadunna Formation (Late Oligocene) of South Australia1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Chunia illuminata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Chunia illuminata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chunia illuminata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itChunia through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodburne and Clemens 1986