Nyctitherium curtidens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NyctitheriumPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 39.7 Mya.
25 occurrences of Nyctitherium curtidens 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
25 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
5 formations
- Bridger Formation19
- San Jose Formation1
- Willwood Formation1
- Aycross Formation1
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group1
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The named rock units Nyctitherium curtidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nyctitherium curtidens and its relatives
EoceneWhere Nyctitherium curtidens and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
170 taxa- Hyrachyus8 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti7 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus7 sites
- Microparamys minutus7 sites
- Microsyops elegans7 sites
- Omomys carteri7 sites
- Sciuravus nitidus7 sites
- Smilodectes mcgrewi7 sites
- Thisbemys corrugatus7 sites
- Washakius insignis7 sites
- Apatemys bellulus6 sites
- Notharctus robinsoni6 sites
- Peradectes chesteri6 sites
- Scenopagus edenensis6 sites
- Uintaparamys parvus6 sites
- Metacheiromys5 sites
- Anaptomorphus westi4 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium4 sites
- Orohippus4 sites
- Orohippus pumilus4 sites
- Tetrapassalus4 sites
- Viverravus gracilis4 sites
- Viverravus minutus4 sites
- Centetodon bembicophagus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Nyctitherium curtidens, 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
8 references- Mammalian Fauna From the Lower Bridger Formation (Bridger A, Early Middle Eocene) of the Southern Green River Basin, Wyoming11
- Early Tertiary Adapisoricidae and Erinaceidae (Mammalia, Insectivora) of North America6
- Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 2: Apatotheria, Lipotyphla, Carnivoramorpha, Condylartha, Dinocerata, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla2
- Paleontology and correlation of Eocene volcanic rocks in the Carter Mountain area, Park County, southeastern Absaroka Range, Wyoming2
- Magnetostratigraphy across the Wasatchian-Bridgerian boundary (early to middle Eocene) in the western Green River Basin, Wyoming1
- Wapiti Valley Faunas: Early and Middle Eocene Fossil Vertebrates from the North Fork of the Shoshone River, Park County, Wyoming1
- Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County1
- Geology, Paleontology, and Correlation of Eocene Volcaniclastic Rocks, Southeast Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming1
Each of the 25 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
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No picture of Nyctitherium curtidens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nyctitherium curtidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nyctitherium curtidens 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 itNyctitherium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1909)