Notopithecus adapinus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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- Sits inside
- NotopithecusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
25 occurrences of Notopithecus adapinus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
25 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Notopithecus adapinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Notopithecus adapinus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Notopithecus adapinus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Notostylops murinus12 sites
- Antepithecus brachystephanus8 sites
- Oldfieldthomasia debilitata8 sites
- Pleurostylodon modicus8 sites
- Trigonostylops wortmani8 sites
- Notostylops6 sites
- Transpithecus obtentus6 sites
- Albertogaudrya unica5 sites
- Didolodus multicuspis5 sites
- Isotemnus primitivus5 sites
- Polydolops thomasi5 sites
- Thomashuxleya rostrata5 sites
- Ultrapithecus rutilans5 sites
- Amphidolops serrula4 sites
- Archaeopithecus rogeri4 sites
- Eohyrax isotemnoides4 sites
- Ernestokokenia nitida4 sites
- Notoungulata4 sites
- Pleurostylodon similis4 sites
- Albertogaudrya3 sites
- Anisotemnus distentus3 sites
- Caroloameghinia mater3 sites
- Henricosbornia lophodonta3 sites
- Isotemnus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Notopithecus adapinus, 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
8 references- Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene of Patagonia11
- The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part II7
- Vertebrate paleontology, geology, and geochronology of the Tapera de López and Scarritt Pocket, Chubut Province, Argentina2
- The Egidio Feruglio's collection in the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Padova: its importance to the knowledge of Cenozoic mammals from South America1
- Postcranial morphology of Notopithecus Ameghino, 1897 (Notoungulata, Interatheriidae) from the middle Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina1
- Note sur la géologie et la paléontologie de la Patagonie1
- Notices préliminaires sur des mammifères nouveaux des terrains Crétacé de Patagonie {preliminary notes on new mammals from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]1
- Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]1
Each of the 25 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 Notopithecus adapinus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- 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 itNotopithecus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1897