Nyctitheriinae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NyctitheriidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 60.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 63.4 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
139 occurrences of Nyctitheriinae 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
139 occurrencesThese 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
24 formations
- Willwood Formation11
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group10
- Fort Union Formation8
- Perrière Formation6
- Bembridge Limestone Formation4
- Headon Hill Formation4
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The named rock units Nyctitheriinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nyctitheriinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Nyctitheriinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,105 taxa- Saturninia27 sites
- Suevosciurus18 sites
- Cryptotopos communis16 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus13 sites
- Peratherium13 sites
- Percymygale vauclusensis12 sites
- Amphiperatherium11 sites
- Coryphodon11 sites
- Peradectes protinnominatus10 sites
- Saturninia gracilis10 sites
- Gekkonidae9 sites
- Glamys priscus9 sites
- Amphiperatherium minutum8 sites
- Anguini8 sites
- Labidolemur kayi8 sites
- Microchoerus erinaceus8 sites
- Necrosaurus8 sites
- Plagiolophus annectens8 sites
- Pseudosciurus8 sites
- Suevosciurus ehingensis8 sites
- Tegulariscaptor minor8 sites
- Amphisbaenidae7 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius7 sites
- Plesiadapis cookei7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Nyctitheriinae, 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
53 references- The nyctitheriids (Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from Early Oligocene fissure fillings in South Germany31
- Les nouvelles faunes de vertebres anterieurs a la "Grande Coupure" decouvertes dans les phosphorites du Quercy10
- New postcranial bones of the extinct mammalian family Nyctitheriidae (Paleogene, UK): Primitive euarchontans with scansorial locomotion7
- Insectivores (Mammalia) from the earliest Oligocene (MP 21) of Belgium6
- Mammalian taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Bembridge Limestone Formation (Late Eocene, S. England)5
- Systematics and phylogeny of Paleocene–Eocene Nyctitheriidae (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla?) with description of a new species from the late Paleocene of the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming, USA4
- Le gisement du Bretou (Phosphorites du Quercy, Tarn-et-Garonne, France) et sa faune des vertebres de l'Eocene superieur; 4. Insectivores et chiropteres. [Le Bretou locality (Quercy Phosphorites, Tarn-et-Garonne, France) and its late Eocene vertebrate fauna; 4. Insectivores and bats.]4
- Early Eocene bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) and other vertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Willlwood Formation, Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming4
- Les gisements de Robiac (Eocène supérieur) et leurs faunes de Mammifères4
- Nyctitheriidae (Mammalia, ?Eulipotyphla) from the late Paleocene of Big Multi Quarry, southern Wyoming, and a revision of the subfamily Placentidentinae3
- Le genre Euronyctia (Nyctitheriidae, Mammalia) en Europe Occidentale3
- Mammals from the Early (late Ypresian) to Middle (Lutetian) Eocene Bracklesham Group, southern England3
Each of the 139 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. 41 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
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No picture of Nyctitheriinae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nyctitheriinae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nyctitheriinae 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.
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What may have been alongside itNyctitheriidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1928