Notostylops murinus

Ghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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- Sits inside
- NotostylopsPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
27 occurrences of Notostylops murinus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
27 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Notostylops murinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Notostylops murinus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Notostylops murinus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Notopithecus adapinus12 sites
- Antepithecus brachystephanus9 sites
- Oldfieldthomasia debilitata8 sites
- Pleurostylodon modicus8 sites
- Trigonostylops wortmani7 sites
- Transpithecus obtentus6 sites
- Didolodus multicuspis5 sites
- Polydolops thomasi5 sites
- Ultrapithecus rutilans5 sites
- Amphidolops serrula4 sites
- Caroloameghinia mater4 sites
- Eohyrax isotemnoides4 sites
- Ernestokokenia nitida4 sites
- Henricosbornia lophodonta4 sites
- Isotemnus primitivus4 sites
- Notopithecus4 sites
- Paginula parca4 sites
- Pleurostylodon similis4 sites
- Thomashuxleya rostrata4 sites
- Utaetus buccatus4 sites
- Albertogaudrya3 sites
- Albertogaudrya unica3 sites
- Archaeopithecus rogeri3 sites
- Isotemnus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Notostylops murinus, 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- Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene of Patagonia9
- The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part I9
- Notices préliminaires sur des mammifères nouveaux des terrains Crétacé de Patagonie {preliminary notes on new mammals from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]2
- Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]2
- First skeleton of the notoungulate mammal Notostylops murinus and palaeobiology of Eocene Notostylopidae1
- Vertebrate paleontology, geology, and geochronology of the Tapera de López and Scarritt Pocket, Chubut Province, Argentina1
- Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]1
- Note sur la géologie et la paléontologie de la Patagonie1
- Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]1
Each of the 27 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 Notostylops murinus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Notostylops murinus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNotostylops through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1897