Saturninia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NyctitheriinaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
67 occurrences of Saturninia 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
67 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
15 formations
- Perrière Formation6
- Bembridge Limestone Formation4
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group4
- Wittering Formation · Bracklesham Group3
- Perriere Formation2
- Bembridge Marls Formation1
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The named rock units Saturninia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Saturninia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Saturninia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
679 taxa- Peratherium11 sites
- Suevosciurus10 sites
- Amphiperatherium8 sites
- Amphiperatherium minutum8 sites
- Gekkonidae8 sites
- Glamys priscus8 sites
- Anguini7 sites
- Necrosaurus7 sites
- Amphisbaenidae6 sites
- Palaeopython cadurcensis6 sites
- Plagiolophus annectens6 sites
- Stehlinia6 sites
- Amphiperatherium goethei5 sites
- Boidae5 sites
- Crocodylia5 sites
- Dichodon5 sites
- Eotalpa anglica5 sites
- Microchoerus erinaceus5 sites
- Ophisaurus5 sites
- Palaeotherium5 sites
- Placosaurus5 sites
- Pseudoloris parvulus5 sites
- Serpentes5 sites
- Theridomys5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Saturninia, 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
32 references- Les nouvelles faunes de vertebres anterieurs a la "Grande Coupure" decouvertes dans les phosphorites du Quercy10
- Mammalian taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Bembridge Limestone Formation (Late Eocene, S. England)5
- The nyctitheriids (Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from Early Oligocene fissure fillings in South Germany4
- Insectivores (Mammalia) from the earliest Oligocene (MP 21) of Belgium4
- 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
- Les gisements de Robiac (Eocène supérieur) et leurs faunes de Mammifères4
- New postcranial bones of the extinct mammalian family Nyctitheriidae (Paleogene, UK): Primitive euarchontans with scansorial locomotion3
- Mammals from the Early (late Ypresian) to Middle (Lutetian) Eocene Bracklesham Group, southern England3
- Catalogue of the Eocene mammal types of the Natural History Museum Basel2
- La faune de mammifères de Vielase (phosphorites du Quercy, Sud de la France): Preuve paléontologique d'une karstification du Quercy dès l'Eocène inférieur2
- Une faune du niveau d'Egerkingen (MP 14; Bartonien inférieur) dans les phosphorites du Quercy (Sud de la France)2
- La poche a phosphate de Ste-Néboule (Lot) et sa faune de vertebres du Ludien Superieur. 8. - Insectivores et Chiroptères2
Each of the 67 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. 20 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
Media content0
No picture of Saturninia 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 Saturninia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saturninia 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 itNyctitheriinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stehlin 1940