Dorcopsis

Dorcopsis is a genus of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. The members of the genus are found on the island of New Guinea.

Dorcopsis

J G Keulemans (1842-1912) · Public Domain · 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
Also called
New Guinea forest wallabyPBDB
Sits inside
MacropodinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Macropodidae
Life habit
saltatorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At most 21 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Dorcopsis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

5 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

3 formations

Otibanda — 7.25°S, 146.50°EOtibanda — 7.22°S, 146.75°ELoxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EGrange Burn — 37.70°S, 141.95°E

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The named rock units Dorcopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dorcopsis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Dorcopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dorcopsis, 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

Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Dorcopsis

Credit
J G Keulemans (1842-1912)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dorcopsis muelleri · NHMUK:ZOO:1933.11.4.4

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMacropodinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlegel and Müller 1845