Eulemur mongoz · Epoch Explorer

The mongoose lemur is a small primate in the family Lemuridae, native to Madagascar and introduced to the Comoros Islands. These arboreal animals have pointed faces, long, bushy tails, dark-brown upper parts, pale bellies, and beards, which are reddish in males and white in females. They live in family groups and feed primarily on fruit, but also eat leaves, flowers, and nectar, with nectar from Ceiba pentandra trees making up a large part of their diet during the dry season. They have declined sharply in numbers because of habitat destruction and hunting, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated their conservation status as "critically endangered".

Lea Maimone · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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: mongoose lemurPBDB
Sits inside: EulemurPBDB
Diet: frugivore, herbivorePBDB, for Lemuridae
Life habit: arborealPBDB, for Lemuridae
Motility: actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment: terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 12 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

2 occurrences of Eulemur mongoz on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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

2 occurrences

Holocene100%

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.

Eulemur mongoz and its relatives

Holocene

Where Eulemur mongoz and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eulemur mongoz, 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

1 reference

Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western MadagascarBurney et al., 2019 · Quaternary Research · journal article2

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 content1

Picture of Eulemur mongoz

Source: Wikipedia/Commons
Credit: Lea Maimone
Licence: CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use: the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eulemur mongoz 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

Source: Wikipedia, “Mongoose lemur”
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 it Eulemur through time Formations of the Holocene The world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1766)