Megaladapis edwardsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegaladapisPBDB
- Diet
- folivorePBDB, for Megaladapidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Megaladapidae
- 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.
3 occurrences of Megaladapis edwardsi on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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 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.
Megaladapis edwardsi and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Megaladapis edwardsi and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Archaeolemur majori3 sites
- Hippopotamus lemerlei3 sites
- Pachylemur insignis3 sites
- Aepyornis2 sites
- Aldabrachelys2 sites
- Bos indicus2 sites
- Canis familiaris2 sites
- Cheirogaleus medius2 sites
- Geochelone radiata2 sites
- Geogale aurita2 sites
- Hadropithecus stenognathus2 sites
- Hypogeomys2 sites
- Lemur catta2 sites
- Microcebus2 sites
- Microgale2 sites
- Mus musculus2 sites
- Propithecus verreauxi2 sites
- Rattus2 sites
- Rousettus2 sites
- Tenrec ecaudatus2 sites
- Acrantophis1 site
- Apus1 site
- Archaeolemur edwardsi1 site
- Artamella viridis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Megaladapis edwardsi, 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
2 references- New discoveries of skeletal elements of Hadropithecus stenognathus from Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar2
- Early Holocene fauna from a new subfossil site: A first assessment from Christmas River, south central Madagascar1
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. 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 Megaladapis edwardsi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- User:Haplochromis
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Megaladapis edwardsi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMegaladapis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grandidier 1899