Perameles bowensis
Perameles bowensis is an extinct Pliocene-aged species of bandicoot. Fossils have been found in the Wellington Caves of New South Wales. The bandicoot was about 20 centimeters long. It is believed to have gone extinct in the Late Pliocene.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeramelesPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Peramelidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Perameles
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Perameles bowensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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.
Perameles bowensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Perameles bowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- "Dasycerus" worboysi n. sp.1 site
- Antechinus1 site
- Cercartetus1 site
- Dasyurus dunmalli1 site
- Kurrabi merriwaensis1 site
- Macroderma koppa1 site
- Macropodinae1 site
- Murinae1 site
- Protemnodon bandharr1 site
- Protemnodon devisi1 site
- Pseudocheirus stirtoni1 site
- Silvicultor karae1 site
- Sminthopsis1 site
- Thylacoleo crassidentatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Perameles bowensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The Big Sink local fauna; a lower Pliocene mammalian fauna from the Wellington Caves complex, Wellington, New South Wales1
- Perameles bowensis, a new species of Perameles (Peramelemorphia, Marsupialia) from Pliocene faunas of Bow and Wellington Caves, New South Wales1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Perameles bowensis 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 Perameles bowensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Perameles bowensis 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPerameles through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muirhead et al. 1997