Nanodelphys

Nanodelphys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeradectinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Peradectidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 24.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 45.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya.

Eocene — about 11 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 26 occurrencesMiocene46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39.7 Mya24.7 Mya46.4 Mya18 Mya

26 occurrences of Nanodelphys on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

26 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

8 formations

Wagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.28°WSage Creek — 45.00°N, 112.80°W

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The named rock units Nanodelphys 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.

Nanodelphys and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Nanodelphys and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

440 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Nanodelphys, 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

12 references

Each of the 26 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 Nanodelphys

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Nanodelphys 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.

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What may have been alongside itPeradectinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McGrew 1937