Anagalidae

Anagalidae is an extinct family of mammals closely related to rodents and lagomorphs. Members of the family are known from Paleocene to Oligocene deposits in China and Mongolia.

Anagalidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnagalidaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 37 occurrencesPaleocene — about 33 of 37 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesOligocene67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 5 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 6 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya33.9 Mya66.8 Mya26.5 Mya

37 occurrences of Anagalidae 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

37 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

16 formations

Wanghudun — 30.76°N, 116.55°ENomogen — 43.53°N, 111.73°ENomogen — 43.15°N, 111.58°EShanghu — 25.12°N, 114.30°EShanghu — 25.08°N, 114.17°ENongshan — 25.08°N, 114.17°ENongshan — 25.29°N, 114.50°ENongshan — 25.37°N, 114.52°EDoumu — 30.76°N, 116.55°EChijiang — 25.50°N, 114.50°EShuangtasi — 30.97°N, 118.75°EFangou — 34.17°N, 110.17°ENaran Bulak — 43.47°N, 100.45°EKhashat — 44.00°N, 104.00°ETujinshan — 32.63°N, 118.06°EHuoshaogou — 39.93°N, 97.78°EUlan Shireh — 42.52°N, 110.97°EUlan Gochu — 43.21°N, 111.34°EZaoshi — 26.70°N, 113.50°EErgilin Dzo — 43.40°N, 109.10°E

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The named rock units Anagalidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anagalidae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Anagalidae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Anagalidae, 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

22 references

Each of the 37 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. 10 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 Anagalidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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. Simpson 1931