Ningaui
Ningaui is a genus of small species of the marsupial dasyurid family. Along with the planigales, they are among the smallest marsupials.
Miss.chelle.13 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- ningauiPBDB
- Sits inside
- DasyuridaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Dasyuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Ningaui 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene99%
- Holocene1%
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.
Ningaui and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ningaui and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Antechinus flavipes7 sites
- Bettongia lesueur7 sites
- Cercartetus lepidus7 sites
- Cercartetus nanus7 sites
- Dasyurus viverrinus7 sites
- Mastacomys7 sites
- Notomys7 sites
- Perameles gunnii7 sites
- Petaurus breviceps7 sites
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus7 sites
- Pseudomys7 sites
- Sminthopsis crassicaudata7 sites
- Conilurus6 sites
- Isoodon obesulus6 sites
- Phascogale tapoatafa6 sites
- Potorous platyops6 sites
- Rattus6 sites
- Sminthopsis murina6 sites
- Trichosurus vulpecula6 sites
- Acrobates pygmaeus5 sites
- Sminthopsis5 sites
- Bettongia4 sites
- Egernia4 sites
- Lagorchestes4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ningaui, 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- Late Quaternary Small Mammal Faunas of the Naracoorte Caves World Heritage Area3
- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia II2
- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia2
Each of the 7 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 Ningaui
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Miss.chelle.13
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ningaui 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, “Ningaui”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDasyuridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Archer 1975