Bustylus

Bustylus is an extinct genus of eutherians in the family Adapisoriculidae. It was described by Emmanuel Gheerbrandt and Russell in 1991, and the type species is B. cernaysi, described from the late Paleocene of Cernay, France, and possibly also from Germany. Gheerbrandt later redescribed the species Peradectes marandati as a species of Bustylus. A third species, B. folieae, was described from the early Paleocene of Belgium by Eric De Bast, Bernard Sigé and Thierry Smith in 2012. B. folieae was named in honour of Dr. Annelise Folie.

Bustylus

Eric De Bast, Bernard Sigé and Thierry Smith · CC BY 2.5 · 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
AdapisoriculidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPaleocene — about 10 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61.66 Mya56 Mya66.5 Mya47.6 Mya

11 occurrences of Bustylus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

11 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

5 formations

Hainin — 50.43°N, 3.75°EConglomérat de Cernay — 49.27°N, 4.10°ESables de Bracheux — 49.27°N, 4.15°ETienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°EHeers — 50.71°N, 5.00°E

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The named rock units Bustylus 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.

Bustylus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Bustylus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Bustylus, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Bustylus

Credit
Eric De Bast, Bernard Sigé and Thierry Smith
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bustylus 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.

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What may have been alongside itAdapisoriculidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gheerbrant and Russell 1991