Peramus

Peramus is an extinct genus of cladotherian mammal. It lived in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Europe and North Africa.

Peramus

The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
PeramuridaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At most 8.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 145.06 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145.6 Mya136.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Peramus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

6 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

2 formations

Lulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WKsar Metlili — 32.70°N, 3.22°W

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The named rock units Peramus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peramus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Peramus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Peramus, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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 Peramus

Credit
The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peramus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itPeramuridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1871