Archaeonycteris brailloni
No picture of Archaeonycteris brailloni 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 Archaeonycteris brailloni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeonycterisPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Chiroptera
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Chiroptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Chiroptera
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Archaeonycteris brailloni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Archaeonycteris brailloni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeonycteris brailloni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Archaeonycteris brailloni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Allaeochelys2 sites
- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
- Apatemys mutiniacus2 sites
- Apatemys sigogneaui2 sites
- Arcius fuscus2 sites
- Avenius amatorum2 sites
- Axestemys vittata2 sites
- Bunophorus2 sites
- Calamagras gallicus2 sites
- Cantius savagei2 sites
- Diacodexis varleti2 sites
- Didelphodus2 sites
- Dunnophis matronensis2 sites
- Eolacerta2 sites
- Heterohyus2 sites
- Hyracolestes2 sites
- Icaronycteris menui2 sites
- Macrocranion nitens2 sites
- Miacidae2 sites
- Neochelys eocaenica2 sites
- Paroxyclaenidae2 sites
- Paroxyclaenus2 sites
- Placentidens lotus2 sites
- Platychoerops daubrei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Archaeonycteris brailloni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Archaeonycteris brailloni 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 Archaeonycteris brailloni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeonycteris brailloni 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 itArchaeonycteris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Russell et al. 1973