Plagiaulacidae

Plagiaulacidae is a family of fossil mammals within the order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous of North America and Europe. They were among the more derived representatives of the informal suborder of "Plagiaulacida".

Plagiaulacidae

Kielan-Jaworowska, 2. & Nessov, L. A. · CC BY-SA 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
PlagiaulacidaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Multituberculata
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Multituberculata
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 138 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 63.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 60.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 26 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 26 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 26 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–143 Mya — about 3 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 12 occurrences138–133 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences201.4 Mya63.4 Mya209 Mya58 Mya

26 occurrences of Plagiaulacidae 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

26 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

6 formations

Lulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WCedar Mountain — 38.66°N, 111.24°WCedar Mountain — 39.00°N, 111.00°WMorrison — 41.89°N, 106.00°WMorrison — 41.99°N, 106.08°WDzunbain — 42.45°N, 102.42°ELakota — 43.32°N, 103.62°WExter — 48.55°N, 9.06°E

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The named rock units Plagiaulacidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plagiaulacidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Plagiaulacidae, 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

12 references

Each of the 26 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 Plagiaulacidae

Credit
Kielan-Jaworowska, 2. & Nessov, L. A.
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itPlagiaulacida through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1872