Petaurus norfolcensis
The squirrel glider is a nocturnal gliding possum and is one of the wrist-winged gliders of the genus Petaurus.
John Gould · Public Domain · 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- Also called
- squirrel gliderPBDB
- Sits inside
- PetaurusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, frugivorePBDB, for Petaurus
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Petaurus
- 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.
5 occurrences of Petaurus norfolcensis 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene80%
- Holocene20%
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.
Petaurus norfolcensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Petaurus norfolcensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Antechinus flavipes5 sites
- Petaurus breviceps5 sites
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus5 sites
- Pseudomys5 sites
- Rattus5 sites
- Sminthopsis murina5 sites
- Trichosurus vulpecula5 sites
- Bettongia lesueur4 sites
- Cercartetus lepidus4 sites
- Cercartetus nanus4 sites
- Conilurus4 sites
- Dasyurus viverrinus4 sites
- Hydromys4 sites
- Isoodon obesulus4 sites
- Mastacomys4 sites
- Notomys4 sites
- Perameles gunnii4 sites
- Phascogale tapoatafa4 sites
- Potorous platyops4 sites
- Sminthopsis4 sites
- Sminthopsis crassicaudata4 sites
- Acrobates pygmaeus3 sites
- Antechinus agilis3 sites
- Bettongia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Petaurus norfolcensis, 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- Late Quaternary Small Mammal Faunas of the Naracoorte Caves World Heritage Area3
- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia II1
- Tropical Rainforests of North Queensland: Their Conservation Significance1
Each of the 5 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
Media content1
Picture of Petaurus norfolcensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- John Gould
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Petaurus norfolcensis 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 itPetaurus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kerr 1792)