Stenolestes

Stenolestes

Gaëlle Doitteau · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
SieblosiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Odonata
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.09 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesOligocene — about 14 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.5–8.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.5–7.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.5–6.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.5–5.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27.3 Mya8.725 Mya34.5 Mya4.5 Mya

22 occurrences of Stenolestes on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

22 occurrences

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

4 formations

Campagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EKaragan — 45.05°N, 42.32°ESivik — 41.62°N, 24.00°E

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The named rock units Stenolestes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stenolestes and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Stenolestes and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

416 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Stenolestes, 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

11 references

Each of the 22 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 Stenolestes

Credit
Gaëlle Doitteau
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stenolestes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSieblosiidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1895