Argyrolagidae

Argyrolagidae

Nobu Tamura (nobu.tamura@yahoo.com) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
ArgyrolagoideaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Metatheria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 400 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 46 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 46 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 46 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 46 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–6.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence33.9 Mya400 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

46 occurrences of Argyrolagidae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

46 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

22 formations

Cerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 36.70°S, 64.28°WCerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 36.68°S, 64.18°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 43.28°S, 65.48°WPozo — 6.58°S, 76.28°WUmala — 18.83°S, 66.15°WUmala — 17.08°S, 68.00°WUmala — 17.15°S, 68.83°WIrene — 38.63°S, 60.61°WIrene — 38.67°S, 60.60°WAbanico — 34.98°S, 70.43°WUquía — 23.24°S, 65.36°WUquía — 26.24°S, 65.37°WCollón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WSala Beds — 17.00°S, 67.00°WVorohué — 38.03°S, 57.72°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WAndalhuala — 26.68°S, 66.03°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.70°WPuerto Belgrano — 38.98°S, 61.82°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°WPampean — 38.20°S, 59.12°WEl Polvorín — 36.99°S, 60.22°WAisol — 34.58°S, 68.55°WIndia Muerta — 26.66°S, 65.23°WCollon Cura — 42.58°S, 70.33°W

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The named rock units Argyrolagidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Argyrolagidae and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Argyrolagidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

607 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Argyrolagidae, 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

32 references

Each of the 46 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. 20 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Argyrolagidae

Credit
Nobu Tamura (nobu.tamura@yahoo.com)
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Argyrolagidae 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 itArgyrolagoidea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1904