Lestodelphys

Lestodelphys

T H. Hall · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
Patagonian opussumPBDB
Sits inside
ThylamyiniPBDB
Diet
omnivore, carnivorePBDB, for Didelphidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Didelphidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Didelphidae

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.75 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 10 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 10 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences817 ka–700 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences700 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences583 ka–467 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467 ka–350 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350 ka–233 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233 ka–117 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence117 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.75 Mya11.7 ka3.5 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Lestodelphys 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

10 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

3 formations

Agua Blanca — 38.48°S, 61.80°WSanta Clara — 37.75°S, 57.42°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°W

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The named rock units Lestodelphys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lestodelphys and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lestodelphys and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Lestodelphys, 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

9 references

Each of the 10 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 Lestodelphys

Source
GBIF
Credit
T H. Hall
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itThylamyini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tate 1934