Archaeolemur edwardsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeolemurPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Archaeolemuridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Archaeolemuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Archaeolemur edwardsi on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
3 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Archaeolemur edwardsi and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Archaeolemur edwardsi and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Cheirogaleus medius3 sites
- Cryptoprocta ferox3 sites
- Microgale3 sites
- Mus musculus3 sites
- Tenrec ecaudatus3 sites
- Accipiter madagascariensis2 sites
- Avahi cleesei2 sites
- Babakotia radofilai2 sites
- Buteo2 sites
- Capra aegagrus2 sites
- cf. Boophinae indet.2 sites
- Chaerephon leucogastert2 sites
- Coracopsis nigra2 sites
- Coua2 sites
- Coua cristata2 sites
- Coua gigas2 sites
- Cryptoprocta2 sites
- Dryolimnas cuvieri2 sites
- Eliurus2 sites
- Erymnochelys madagascariensis2 sites
- Eulemur mongoz2 sites
- Eulemur rufus2 sites
- Eurystomus glaucurus2 sites
- Felis lybica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Archaeolemur edwardsi, 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- Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar2
- New findings at Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar1
Each of the 3 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 Archaeolemur edwardsi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Archaeolemur edwardsi · dpc:7811
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 itArchaeolemur through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Filhol 1895