Nyctitherium

Nyctitherium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NyctitheriidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 37 Mya.

Paleocene — about 4 of 100 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 96 of 100 occurrencesEocene61–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 8 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 8 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 8 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 8 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 7 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57.5 Mya39.7 Mya61.4 Mya36.5 Mya

100 occurrences of Nyctitherium 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

100 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

19 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WRavenscrag — 49.70°N, 110.10°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WPass Peak — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WSantiago — 33.15°N, 117.31°WTepee Trail — 43.20°N, 108.20°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°W

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The named rock units Nyctitherium 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.

Nyctitherium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nyctitherium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

813 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Nyctitherium, 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

37 references

Each of the 100 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. 25 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 Nyctitherium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nyctitherium 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 itNyctitheriidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1872