Apidium

Apidium

Susan B. Hochgraf, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
QatraniinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 418 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 10 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences467–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–19 Mya — about 7 occurrences452.8 Mya33.9 Mya467 Mya19 Mya

10 occurrences of Apidium on record. 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

10 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

4 formations

Jebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EAnderken — 43.88°N, 75.55°ETakche — 32.37°N, 77.62°EAshawq — 17.06°N, 54.42°E

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The named rock units Apidium 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.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Apidium, 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

10 references

Each of the 10 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 Apidium

Credit
Susan B. Hochgraf, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Apidium sp. · dpc:3132

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itQatraniinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Osborn 1908