Morganucodontidae

Morganucodontidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MorganucodontaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 16 of 31 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 31 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 31 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic238–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 7 occurrences204–201 Mya — about 8 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 3 occurrences199–196 Mya — about 3 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 3 occurrences194–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–189 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence227.3 Mya168.2 Mya238 Mya164 Mya

31 occurrences of Morganucodontidae on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

31 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

9 formations

Grès à Avicula contorta — 48.62°N, 6.33°ELufeng — 25.17°N, 102.11°EKlettgau — 47.71°N, 8.45°EKota — 19.27°N, 79.52°EKota — 19.11°N, 79.92°EForest Marble — 51.73°N, 1.98°WForest Marble — 50.71°N, 2.78°WFleming Fjord — 71.48°N, 22.68°WKayenta — 35.76°N, 111.08°WMoskovoretskaya — 55.20°N, 38.78°ETiki — 23.92°N, 81.37°E

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The named rock units Morganucodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Morganucodontidae and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Morganucodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

247 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Morganucodontidae, 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

22 references

Each of the 31 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. 10 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 Morganucodontidae

Credit
FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMorganucodonta through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kuehne 1958)