Euowenia

Uncredited · 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
- DiprotodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 2.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Euowenia 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene86%
- Pleistocene14%
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
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The named rock units Euowenia 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.
Euowenia and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Euowenia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Pseudomys vandycki2 sites
- Archerium chinchillaensis1 site
- Bohra paulae1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Dasyurus1 site
- Dasyurus dunmalli1 site
- Diprotodon1 site
- Diprotodon optatum1 site
- Dromaius novaehollandiae1 site
- Emydura1 site
- Euryzygoma1 site
- Macropus1 site
- Macropus woodsi1 site
- Palorchestes1 site
- Paludirex1 site
- Paludirex vincenti1 site
- Perameles wilkinsonorum1 site
- Phascolonus1 site
- Phascolonus gigas1 site
- Phascolonus lemleyi1 site
- Protemnodon1 site
- Sedophascolomys medius1 site
- Silvaroo bila1 site
- Simosthenurus antiquus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Euowenia, 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
4 references- Occurrence of Euowenia grata (De Vis, 1887) (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia) from the Pliocene Spring Park Local Fauna, northeastern Queensland3
- Palaeobiology of Euowenia grata (Marsupialia: Diprotodontinae) and its Presence in Northern South Australia2
- The Wyandotte Local Fauna: A New, Dated, Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna from Northern Queensland1
- Fossil marsupials and Cainozoic continental stratigraphy in Australia; a review1
Each of the 7 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 Euowenia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Euowenia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDiprotodontidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Vis 1891