Alostera saskatchewanensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlosteraPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Alostera saskatchewanensis on record, most of them in the Late 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
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Alostera saskatchewanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alostera saskatchewanensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Alostera saskatchewanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Cimolodon nitidus4 sites
- Pediomys elegans4 sites
- Cimolomys gracilis3 sites
- Didelphodon vorax3 sites
- Gypsonictops illuminatus3 sites
- Leptalestes krejcii3 sites
- Meniscoessus robustus3 sites
- Mesodma formosa3 sites
- Mesodma thompsoni3 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus3 sites
- Nortedelphys jasoni3 sites
- Albanerpetontidae2 sites
- Alphadon2 sites
- Alphadon sahnii2 sites
- Altacreodus magnus2 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis2 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Batodon tenuis2 sites
- Carcharias steineri2 sites
- Ceratopsidae2 sites
- Chamops segnis2 sites
- Cimolestes incisus2 sites
- Cretorectolobus olsoni2 sites
- Glasbius twitchelli2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Alostera saskatchewanensis, 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 Wounded Knee local fauna and mammalian evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Saskatchewan, Canada4
- Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages"3
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Alostera saskatchewanensis 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 Alostera saskatchewanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alostera saskatchewanensis 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 itAlostera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fox 1989