Asmithwoodwardia
Asmithwoodwardia is an extinct genus of mammals, from the order Litopterna. It lived during the Late Paleocene and the Early Eocene, and its fossilized remains were found in South America.
No picture of Asmithwoodwardia 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 Asmithwoodwardia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtolipternidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Litopterna
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Asmithwoodwardia 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
8 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
4 formations
- Andesitas Huancache Formation2
- Sarmiento Formation2
- Itaboraí Formation1
- Las Flores Formation · Río Chico Group1
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The named rock units Asmithwoodwardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Asmithwoodwardia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Asmithwoodwardia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Archaeopithecus rogeri5 sites
- Henricosbornia lophodonta5 sites
- Victorlemoineia4 sites
- Anisolambda fissidens3 sites
- Didelphimorphia3 sites
- Edvardotrouessartia sola3 sites
- Hathlyacininae3 sites
- Isotemnus3 sites
- Isotemnus primitivus3 sites
- Maxschlosseria praeterita3 sites
- Microbiotheriidae3 sites
- Notostylops3 sites
- Othnielmarshia lacunifera3 sites
- Peradectidae3 sites
- Pleurostylodon similis3 sites
- Polydolopidae3 sites
- Polydolops thomasi3 sites
- Protodidelphis3 sites
- Thomashuxleya externa3 sites
- Amphidolops2 sites
- Amphidolops intermedius2 sites
- Anisolambda amel2 sites
- Australidelphia2 sites
- Bobbschaefferia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Asmithwoodwardia, 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
5 references- New Early Eocene mammalian fauna from western Patagonia, Argentina3
- The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part I2
- A reassessment of bunodont metatherians from the Paleogene of Itaborai (Brazil): Systematics and the age of the Itaborian SALMA1
- Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene of Patagonia1
- Fossil mammals from the beginning of the Cenozoic in Brazil. Condylarthra, Litopterna, Xenungulata, and Astrapotheria1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Asmithwoodwardia 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 Asmithwoodwardia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asmithwoodwardia 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProtolipternidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1901