Galagidae

Galagos, also known as bush babies or nagapies, are small nocturnal primates native to continental, sub-Sahara Africa, and make up the family Galagidae. They are considered a sister group of the Lorisidae.

Galagidae

Jacobmacmillan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
galagoPBDB
Sits inside
LorisoideaPBDB
Diet
insectivore, frugivorePBDB
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 23 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Galagidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

23 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

9 formations

Shungura — 5.06°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.03°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.34°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EBirket Qarun — 29.60°N, 30.60°EJebel Qatrani — 29.50°N, 30.50°ENakali — 1.18°N, 36.37°E

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The named rock units Galagidae 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.

Galagidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Galagidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

543 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Galagidae, 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

19 references

Each of the 23 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 Galagidae

Credit
Jacobmacmillan
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itLorisoidea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mivart 1864)