Archaeonycteris praecursor
No picture of Archaeonycteris praecursor was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 praecursor, 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.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Archaeonycteris praecursor 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
1 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 praecursor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeonycteris praecursor and its relatives
EoceneWhere Archaeonycteris praecursor and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Anguinae1 site
- Apatemys1 site
- Arcius zbyszewskii1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Creodonta1 site
- Diacodexis antunesi1 site
- Didelphodus1 site
- Diplocynodon1 site
- Donrussellia lusitanica1 site
- Dormaalocyon latouri1 site
- Dunnophis matronensis1 site
- Eurodon silveirinhensis1 site
- Euromys cardosoi1 site
- Fluviatilavis antunesi1 site
- Geiseltaliellus1 site
- Gekkonidae1 site
- Glyptosaurinae1 site
- Glyptosaurini1 site
- Heterohyus1 site
- Iguanidae1 site
- Ilerdoryctes sigei1 site
- Leptacodon1 site
- Leptacodon nascimentoi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Archaeonycteris praecursor, 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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Archaeonycteris praecursor was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 praecursor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeonycteris praecursor 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.
Keep going
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. Tabuce et al. 2009