Adapisoriculidae

Adapisoriculidae is an extinct family of non-placental eutherian mammals which was present during the Paleogene and possibly the Late Cretaceous. They were once thought to be members of the order Erinaceomorpha, closely related to the hedgehog family (Erinaceidae), because of their similar dentition, or to be basal Euarchontans. They were also thought to be marsupials at one point. Most recent studies show them to be non-placental eutherians, however.

Adapisoriculidae

Eric De Bast, Bernard Sigé and Thierry Smith · CC BY 2.5 · 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
EutheriaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 8 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 27 of 41 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 41 occurrencesEocene73–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya48.07 Mya72.8 Mya40.4 Mya

41 occurrences of Adapisoriculidae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

41 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

Hainin — 50.43°N, 3.75°EJbel Guersif — 31.61°N, 5.66°WConglomérat de Cernay — 49.27°N, 4.10°ESables de Bracheux — 49.27°N, 4.15°EAit Ouarhitane — 31.51°N, 5.61°WCalcaire de Ventenac — 43.08°N, 2.50°ETienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°EHeers — 50.71°N, 5.00°E

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The named rock units Adapisoriculidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adapisoriculidae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Adapisoriculidae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

377 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Adapisoriculidae, 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

23 references

Each of the 41 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. 11 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 content1

Picture of Adapisoriculidae

Credit
Eric De Bast, Bernard Sigé and Thierry Smith
Licence
CC BY 2.5
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van Valen 1967