Dasyuromorphia

Dasyuromorphia is an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials. The order contains four families: Myrmecobiidae, with just a single living species, the numbat ; Thylacinidae, with one recently extinct species, the thylacine and several fossil species; Dasyuridae, with 73 extant species, including quolls, dunnarts, and the Tasmanian devil; and the extinct fossil family Malleodectidae with six genera.

Dasyuromorphia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EometatheriaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 293 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 293 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 293 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 293 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 293 occurrencesPleistocene — about 217 of 293 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 45 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 200 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

293 occurrences of Dasyuromorphia 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

293 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

19 formations

Etadunna — 28.78°S, 138.42°EEtadunna — 29.33°S, 137.50°EMoorna Sandstone — 34.13°S, 141.62°EMoorna — 34.12°S, 141.65°ENamba — 31.23°S, 140.23°ENamba — 31.02°S, 140.32°ENamba — 30.90°S, 140.17°EGrange Burn — 37.70°S, 141.95°EGrange Burn — 37.73°S, 141.95°ENelson Bay — 38.60°S, 141.58°EItaboraí — 22.84°S, 42.88°WChinchilla Sand — 26.75°S, 150.63°EChinchilla Sand — 26.80°S, 150.68°EMoorabool Viaduct Sand — 38.12°S, 144.28°ECamfield Beds — 17.12°S, 131.52°EWaite — 22.87°S, 134.87°EWaite — 23.70°S, 133.88°EWyandotte — 18.77°S, 144.85°ED Clay — 35.70°S, 144.83°EWhaler's Bluff — 38.36°S, 141.60°ELa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.67°WCarl Creek Limestone — 19.08°S, 138.72°EWipajiri — 27.75°S, 140.73°EKatipiri — 28.39°S, 138.32°EOtibanda — 7.21°S, 146.75°E

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The named rock units Dasyuromorphia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 249 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dasyuromorphia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dasyuromorphia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

793 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Dasyuromorphia, 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

79 references

Each of the 293 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. 67 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 Dasyuromorphia

Credit
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Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dasyuromorphia 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

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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. Gill 1872