Nyctitherium serotinum
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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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Nyctitherium serotinum 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
10 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
6 formations
- Green River Formation3
- Wind River Formation2
- Bridger Formation2
- Wasatch Formation1
- Fowkes Formation1
- Aycross Formation1
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The named rock units Nyctitherium serotinum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nyctitherium serotinum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Nyctitherium serotinum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
222 taxa- Miacidae5 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum5 sites
- Omomys carteri5 sites
- Scenopagus edenensis5 sites
- Uintasorex parvulus5 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus4 sites
- Apatemys bellus4 sites
- Centetodon bembicophagus4 sites
- Herpetotherium innominatum4 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium4 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus4 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus4 sites
- Hyrachyus modestus4 sites
- Microparamys minutus4 sites
- Microsyops elegans4 sites
- Pauromys4 sites
- Peradectes chesteri4 sites
- Adapisoricidae3 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti3 sites
- Knightomys depressus3 sites
- Knightomys huerfanensis3 sites
- Miacis parvivorus3 sites
- Microparamys3 sites
- Orohippus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Nyctitherium serotinum, 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- Godiva Rim Member; a new stratigraphic unit of the Green River Formation in Southwest Wyoming and Northwest Colorado2
- Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 5. Geology and biostratigraphy of the upper part of the Wind River Formation, northeastern Wind River Basin2
- Mammalian Fauna From the Lower Bridger Formation (Bridger A, Early Middle Eocene) of the Southern Green River Basin, Wyoming1
- Middle Eocene marsupials (Mammalia) from northeastern Utah and the mammalian fauna from Powder Wash1
- Geology, Paleontology, and Correlation of Eocene Volcaniclastic Rocks, Southeast Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming1
- Mammalian Faunal Zones of the Bridger Middle Eocene1
- Age and stratigraphic relationships of the Fowkes Formation, Eocene, of southwestern Wyoming and northeastern Utah1
- West and Dawson, 19731
Each of the 10 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 serotinum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nyctitherium serotinum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. (Marsh 1872)