Adianthidae

Adianthidae is an extinct family of litopterns that existed from the Middle Eocene (Mustersan) to the Early Miocene (Santacrucian).

Adianthidae

Ghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
LitopternaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Litopterna
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 15.5 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 21 occurrencesMiocene60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56 Mya16.3 Mya60.1 Mya14.6 Mya

21 occurrences of Adianthidae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

21 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

10 formations

Sarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 45.33°S, 68.00°WSarmiento — 43.28°S, 65.48°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WSarmiento — 43.75°S, 69.58°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WLumbrera — 25.52°S, 65.53°WAbanico — 34.98°S, 70.43°WDivisadero Largo — 32.87°S, 68.94°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WRío Frías — 44.58°S, 71.23°WPozo — 6.58°S, 76.28°WLas Chacras — 41.37°S, 69.65°WRío Loro — 26.61°S, 65.18°W

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The named rock units Adianthidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adianthidae and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Adianthidae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

319 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Adianthidae, 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

11 references

Each of the 21 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 Adianthidae

Credit
Ghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Adianthidae 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 itLitopterna through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ameghino 1891)