Ektopodontidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhalangeroideaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
16 occurrences of Ektopodontidae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
16 occurrences- Oligocene25%
- Pliocene59%
- Pleistocene17%
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
6 formations
- Namba Formation2
- Grange Burn Formation2
- Etadunna Formation1
- Whaler's Bluff Formation1
- Nelson Bay Formation1
- Ettadunna Formation1
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The named rock units Ektopodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ektopodontidae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Ektopodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Darcius duggani4 sites
- Diprotodontidae4 sites
- Palorchestidae4 sites
- Pseudokoala4 sites
- Vombatidae4 sites
- Antechinus3 sites
- Chunia illuminata3 sites
- Dasyuridae3 sites
- Macropodidae3 sites
- Petauridae3 sites
- Phalangeridae3 sites
- Pseudocheiridae3 sites
- Pseudocheirus3 sites
- Baringa nelsonensis2 sites
- Ektopodon stirtoni2 sites
- Macropodinae2 sites
- Miralina minor2 sites
- Muridae2 sites
- Obdurodon insignis2 sites
- Osteichthyes2 sites
- Palorchestes2 sites
- Peramelidae2 sites
- Phascolarctidae2 sites
- Potoroidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ektopodontidae, 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
8 references- Further Ektopodontidae (Phalangeroidea, Mammalia) from southwestern Victoria5
- Mesozoic to early Quaternary mammal faunas of Victoria, South-East Australia3
- A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia2
- A new species of Ektopodon (Marsupialia; Phalangeroidea) from the Miocene of South Australia2
- Early Pleistocene mammals from the Nelson Baylocal fauna, Portland, Victoria, Australia1
- Dasyurids, Perameloids, Phalangeroids, and Vombatoids from the Early Pliocene Hamilton Fauna, Victoria, Australia1
- Land Mammal Biostratigraphy and Magnetostratigraphy of the Etadunna Formation (Late Oligocene) of South Australia1
- Darcius duggani, a new ektopodontid (Marsupialia; Phalangeroidea) from the early Pliocene Hamilton local fauna, Australia1
Each of the 16 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 Ektopodontidae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ektopodontidae itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ektopodontidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPhalangeroidea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stirton et al. 1967