Caenolestidae

Caenolestidae

Joseph Wolf ? · Public Domain · 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
CaenolestoideaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 3 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 36 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 36 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 36 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.5–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–3.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.6–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37.71 Mya5 Mya41.8 Mya2.2 Mya

36 occurrences of Caenolestidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

36 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

10 formations

Sarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 43.28°S, 65.48°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.95°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 6.58°S, 76.28°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 36.70°S, 64.28°WYahuarango — 9.49°S, 72.76°WIrene — 38.83°S, 60.54°WCollón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WCollón Cura — 40.39°S, 70.21°WUmala — 18.83°S, 66.15°WChambira — 7.35°S, 74.95°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°W

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The named rock units Caenolestidae 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.

Caenolestidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Caenolestidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

535 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Caenolestidae, 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

17 references

Each of the 36 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. 5 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 Caenolestidae

Credit
Joseph Wolf ?
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Caenolestidae 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 itCaenolestoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Trouessart 1898