Apheliscus nitidus

Apheliscus nitidus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ApheliscusPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Macroscelidea
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Macroscelidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 29 of 30 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesEocene61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 5 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 8 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 8 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61.4 Mya47.6 Mya

30 occurrences of Apheliscus nitidus 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

30 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

3 formations

Fort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.75°N, 109.04°WFort Union — 44.68°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 44.86°N, 108.90°WFort Union — 44.62°N, 109.03°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.89°WFort Union — 44.82°N, 108.83°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°W

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The named rock units Apheliscus nitidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apheliscus nitidus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Apheliscus nitidus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

125 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Apheliscus nitidus, 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

6 references

Each of the 30 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 content2

Picture of Apheliscus nitidus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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CT scan

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Specimen
Apheliscus nitidus · CM:VertPaleo:79107

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 1937