Nyctitherium priscum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NyctitheriumPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 39.7 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51.1 Mya45.9 Mya56.5 Mya39.2 Mya

20 occurrences of Nyctitherium priscum 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

20 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

8 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WFriars — 32.92°N, 117.12°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°W

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The named rock units Nyctitherium priscum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nyctitherium priscum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nyctitherium priscum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

281 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Nyctitherium priscum, 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

13 references

Each of the 20 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. 1 further reference is 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 Nyctitherium priscum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nyctitherium priscum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1872)