Petauroides volans
The southern greater glider, also known as the southern and central greater glider, is a species of large gliding marsupial native to the forests of southeastern Australia. It is an endangered species per the IUCN Red List classification, and since 5 July 2022 has also been listed as endangered under the EPBC Act in Australia. The main threats to its survival are climate change and logging.
Samrhorton · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- PetauroidesPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Pseudocheiridae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Petauroides
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Petauroides volans on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene33%
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.
Petauroides volans and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Petauroides volans and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Antechinus flavipes3 sites
- Petaurus breviceps3 sites
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus3 sites
- Pseudomys3 sites
- Rattus3 sites
- Sminthopsis murina3 sites
- Antechinus stuartii2 sites
- Bettongia2 sites
- Cercartetus lepidus2 sites
- Cercartetus nanus2 sites
- Conilurus2 sites
- Dasyurus viverrinus2 sites
- Hydromys2 sites
- Isoodon obesulus2 sites
- Macropus (Macropus) giganteus2 sites
- Mastacomys2 sites
- Perameles nasuta2 sites
- Petaurus norfolcensis2 sites
- Phascogale tapoatafa2 sites
- Tachyglossus aculeatus2 sites
- Trichosurus vulpecula2 sites
- Wallabia bicolor2 sites
- Acrobates pygmaeus1 site
- Aepyprymnus rufescens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Petauroides volans, 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
3 references- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia1
- Analysis of a late Quaternary deposit and small mammal fauna from Nettle Cave, Jenolan, New South Wales1
- Tropical Rainforests of North Queensland: Their Conservation Significance1
Each of the 3 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
Media content1
Picture of Petauroides volans
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Samrhorton
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Petauroides volans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPetauroides through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kerr 1792