Atelidae

The Atelidae are one of the five families of New World monkeys now recognised. It was formerly included in the family Cebidae. Atelids are generally larger monkeys; the family includes the howler, spider, woolly, and woolly spider monkeys. They are found throughout the forested regions of Central and South America, from Mexico to northern Argentina.

Atelidae

Ateles_marginatus_(Sao_Paulo_zoo).jpg : Miguelrangeljr Alouatta_caraya_male.JPG : Miguelrangeljr Brachyteles_hypoxant… · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PlatyrrhiniPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 11 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–7.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.2–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–953 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences953 ka–477 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences11 Mya11.7 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Atelidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

25 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

4 formations

Solimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 10.93°S, 69.92°WLa Victoria — 3.27°N, 75.19°WLa Victoria — 2.12°N, 75.92°WSolimoes — 10.83°S, 69.83°WSolimões — 8.78°S, 68.90°W

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The named rock units Atelidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Atelidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Atelidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Atelidae, 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

18 references

Each of the 25 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. 6 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 content2

Picture of Atelidae

Credit
Ateles_marginatus_(Sao_Paulo_zoo).jpg : Miguelrangeljr Alouatta_caraya_male.JPG : Miguelrangeljr Brachyteles_hypoxant…
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlatyrrhini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1825