Wyonycteris richardi
No picture of Wyonycteris richardi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Wyonycteris richardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WyonycterisPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Wyonycteris richardi 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Tienen Formation · Landen Group1
- Blackheath Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Wyonycteris richardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wyonycteris richardi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Wyonycteris richardi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Amphiperatherium2 sites
- Meldimys2 sites
- Palaeonictis gigantea2 sites
- Phenacodus2 sites
- Prototomus girardoti2 sites
- Prototomus minimus2 sites
- Pseudoparamys2 sites
- Remiculus2 sites
- Rodentia2 sites
- Acipenser1 site
- Acirsa1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Ailuravinae1 site
- Ailuravus mitchelli1 site
- Allognathosuchus woutersi1 site
- Amphilemuridae1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Anguinae1 site
- Anguini1 site
- Apatemys1 site
- Apatemys prouti1 site
- Apatemys teilhardi1 site
- Arcius hookeri1 site
- Arctocyonides jefferyi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Wyonycteris richardi, 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
2 references- The mammal fauna of the early Eocene Blackheath Formation of Abbey Wood, London1
- Presence du genre Wyonycteris (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) a la limite Paleocene-Eocene en Europe.1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Wyonycteris richardi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Wyonycteris richardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wyonycteris richardi 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 itWyonycteris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1995