Evolestes
No picture of Evolestes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Evolestes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaucituberculataPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 21 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Evolestes 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
3 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
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The named rock units Evolestes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Evolestes and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Evolestes and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Caviomorpha2 sites
- Dasyproctidae2 sites
- Pharsophorus lacerans2 sites
- Acamana1 site
- Anayatherium1 site
- Anayatherium fortis1 site
- Andinogale sallensis1 site
- Archaeohyrax patagonicus1 site
- Archaeohyrax suniensis1 site
- Archaeotypotherium propheticus1 site
- Archaeutatus malaspinensis1 site
- Asteromys bolivianus1 site
- Astrapotheriidae1 site
- Barrancatatus1 site
- Borhyaenidae1 site
- Borhyaeninae1 site
- Branisamys luribayensis1 site
- Branisella boliviana1 site
- Brucemacfaddenia boliviensis1 site
- Calyptocephalella1 site
- Chinchilloidea1 site
- Coniopternium primitivum1 site
- Dasypodidae1 site
- Draconomys verai1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Evolestes, 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
2 references- A new generalized paucituberculatan marsupial from the Oligocene of Bolivia and the origin of 'shrew-like' opossums2
- Middle Tertiary marsupials from central Patagonia (early Oligocene of Gran Barranca): understanding South America's Grande Coupure1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Evolestes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 Evolestes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Evolestes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPaucituberculata through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goin et al. 2007