Lorisidae

Lorisidae is a family of strepsirrhine primates. The lorisids are all slim arboreal animals and comprise the lorises, pottos, and angwantibos. Lorisids live in tropical, central Africa as well as in south and southeast Asia.

Lorisidae

David Haring / Duke Lemur Center · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
lorisPBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 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 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37.71 Mya13.82 Mya41.7 Mya4.6 Mya

8 occurrences of Lorisidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

8 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

5 formations

Maboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°EJebel Qatrani — 29.45°N, 30.58°EChitarwata — 30.08°N, 70.33°EAka Aithputh — 1.78°N, 36.78°E

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The named rock units Lorisidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lorisidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lorisidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

190 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lorisidae, 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

8 references

Each of the 8 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 Lorisidae

Credit
David Haring / Duke Lemur Center
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821