Microcebus
The mouse lemurs are nocturnal lemurs of the genus Microcebus. Like all lemurs, mouse lemurs are native to Madagascar.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- mouse lemurPBDB
- Sits inside
- CheirogaleidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cheirogaleidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Cheirogaleidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Microcebus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
4 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Microcebus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Microcebus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Cheirogaleus medius4 sites
- Microgale4 sites
- Mus musculus4 sites
- Tenrec ecaudatus4 sites
- Archaeolemur edwardsi3 sites
- Coua cristata3 sites
- Cryptoprocta ferox3 sites
- Eliurus3 sites
- Miniopterus3 sites
- Numida meleagris3 sites
- Setifer setosus3 sites
- Triaenops3 sites
- Accipiter madagascariensis2 sites
- Aldabrachelys2 sites
- Archaeolemur majori2 sites
- Avahi cleesei2 sites
- Babakotia radofilai2 sites
- Bos indicus2 sites
- Buteo2 sites
- Canis familiaris2 sites
- Capra aegagrus2 sites
- cf. Boophinae indet.2 sites
- Chaerephon leucogastert2 sites
- Coracopsis nigra2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Microcebus, 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- Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar2
- New findings at Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar2
Each of the 4 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 Microcebus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Original: Bikeadventure at German Wikipedia Modifications: Cornischong at Luxembourgish Wikipedia
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Microcebus 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Mouse lemur”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCheirogaleidae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy 1827