Euronyctia
No picture of Euronyctia was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Euronyctia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NyctitheriinaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Euronyctia on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
15 occurrencesThese 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
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group4
- Headon Hill Formation1
- Collegats Formation1
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The named rock units Euronyctia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Euronyctia and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Euronyctia and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Cryptotopos communis8 sites
- Percymygale vauclusensis8 sites
- Tegulariscaptor minor6 sites
- Butselia biveri3 sites
- Eomys antiquus3 sites
- Lophallomys atavus3 sites
- Percymygale minor3 sites
- Saturninia3 sites
- Saturninia gracilis3 sites
- Suevosciurus3 sites
- Talpidae3 sites
- Amphidozotherium cayluxi2 sites
- Amphiperatherium minutum2 sites
- Bransateryx vireti2 sites
- Dichobune leporina2 sites
- Eoanilius oligocenicus2 sites
- Eomys2 sites
- Eotalpa belgica2 sites
- Glamys priscus2 sites
- Heterosoricinae2 sites
- Myotis belgicus2 sites
- Necrosaurus2 sites
- Nyctitheriidae2 sites
- Ophisaurus roqueprunensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Euronyctia, 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- The nyctitheriids (Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from Early Oligocene fissure fillings in South Germany8
- Le genre Euronyctia (Nyctitheriidae, Mammalia) en Europe Occidentale3
- Insectivores (Mammalia) from the earliest Oligocene (MP 21) of Belgium2
- Microchoerus hookeri nov. sp., a new late Eocene European microchoerine (Omomyidae, Primates): New insights on the evolution of the genus Microchoerus1
- New postcranial bones of the extinct mammalian family Nyctitheriidae (Paleogene, UK): Primitive euarchontans with scansorial locomotion1
Each of the 15 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 Euronyctia was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Euronyctia, 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 itNyctitheriinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sigé 1997