Marmosini

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarmosinaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Marmosinae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Didelphidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Marmosinae
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.
72 occurrences of Marmosini on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
72 occurrences- Miocene47%
- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene22%
- Holocene22%
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
13 formations
- Villavieja Formation · Honda Group15
- Cerro Azul Formation7
- Monte Hermoso Formation4
- La Victoria Formation · Honda Group3
- Botucatu Formation2
- Solimões Formation2
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The named rock units Marmosini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Marmosini and its relatives
MioceneWhere Marmosini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
834 taxa- Marmosa12 sites
- Akodon8 sites
- Oryzomys8 sites
- Thylamys8 sites
- Cuniculus paca7 sites
- Pecari tajacu7 sites
- Ctenomys6 sites
- Micoureus laventicus6 sites
- Reithrodon auritus6 sites
- Caviidae5 sites
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus5 sites
- Didelphidae5 sites
- Didelphis marsupialis5 sites
- Galea leucoblephara5 sites
- Monodelphis domestica5 sites
- Oligoryzomys5 sites
- Palaeocavia5 sites
- Proechimys5 sites
- Proscelidodon gracillimus5 sites
- Puma yagouaroundi5 sites
- Sylvilagus brasiliensis5 sites
- Tayassu pecari5 sites
- Thrichomys5 sites
- Tonatia5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Marmosini, 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
35 references- New clues for understanding Neogene marsupial radiation18
- Small mammals taphonomy and environmental evolution during Late Pleistocene-Holocene in Monte Desert: The evidence of Gruta del Indio (central west Argentina)3
- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Late Miocene of central Argentina: Evidence from rodents and taphonomy3
- Quaternary mammals from Serra do Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil3
- Los marsupiales (Mammalia) del Mioceno Superior de la Formacion Cerro Azul(Provincia de La Pampa, Argentina)3
- Fauna de mamíferos do Quaternário de Serra da Mesa (Goiás, Brasil)3
- Central Amazonian Forests and the Minimum Crtical Size of Ecosystems Project3
- Faunal remains3
- New Didelphine Marsupials from the La Venta Fauna (Miocene) of Colombia, South America3
- New records of marsupials from the Miocene of Western Amazonia, Acre, Brazil2
- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update2
- Diversidade de pequenos mamíferos (Didelphimorphia e Rodentia) do Holoceno do nordeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: implicações taxonômicas e paleo ambientais2
Each of the 72 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. 23 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 content1

Picture of Marmosini
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Marmosini was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMarmosinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reig et al. 1987