|
Clade
|
Reconstructed body mass (kg)
| |
Fossil estimates (kg)
|
|---|
| |
BM
|
OU
|
EB
|
Eastman
|
Stable
| |
|---|
| | | | | | |
0.015-0.017 (Juramaia)
|
|
Eutheria
|
1.24
|
1.23
|
1.14
|
0.97
|
0.33
|
0.02-0.025 (Eomaia)
|
| | | | | | |
Shrew-sized (Prokennalestes)
|
|
Euarchontoglires
|
0.72
|
0.43
|
0.73
|
0.60
|
0.34
| |
| | | | | | |
0.0003 (Tribosphenomys)
|
|
Rodentia
|
0.37
|
0.26
|
0.39
|
0.34
|
0.24
| |
| | | | | | |
0.0014 (Microparamys)
|
|
Lagomorpha
|
0.53
|
0.36
|
0.56
|
0.50
|
0.37
|
0.1-0.2 (Lagomorpha indet.)
|
|
Primates
|
0.76
|
0.49
|
0.77
|
0.64
|
0.45
|
0.1 (Purgatorius)
|
|
Scandentia
|
0.25
|
0.15
|
0.27
|
0.25
|
0.25
| |
|
Laurasiatheria
|
1.13
|
0.61
|
1.10
|
0.60
|
0.25
| |
| | | | | | |
2.2-3.9 (Diacodexeidae)
|
|
Cetartiodactyla
|
23.6
|
80.29
|
17.60
|
18.34
|
79.22
|
2.6-3.9 (Homacodontidae)
|
| | | | | | |
6.6-9.6 (Laredochoerus)
|
| | | | | | |
158.2 (Hyrachyus)
|
|
Perissodactyla
|
86.5
|
152.51
|
57.17
|
72.75
|
273.76
| |
| | | | | | |
740.1 (Amynodon)
|
| | | | | | |
0.15-10 (Viveravidae)
|
|
Carnivora
|
6.34
|
8.77
|
5.45
|
5.23
|
15.20
| |
| | | | | | |
1-10 (Miacidae)
|
|
Pholidota
|
4.61
|
5.54
|
4.48
|
4.47
|
4.28
| |
|
Chiroptera
|
0.08
|
0.12
|
0.09
|
0.02
|
0.02
|
0.012-0.015 (Icaronycteris)
|
|
Eulipotyphla
|
0.58
|
0.41
|
0.62
|
0.36
|
0.22
|
0.011 (Paranyctoides)
|
|
Xenarthra
|
3.04
|
3.13
|
2.60
|
2.8
|
2.15
| |
|
Pilosa
|
4.17
|
3.94
|
3.87
|
2.80
|
4.49
| |
|
Cingulata
|
3.30
|
3.36
|
3.12
|
3.23
|
2.40
| |
|
Afrotheria
|
1.73
|
8.95
|
1.50
|
1.51
|
0.36
| |
|
Afrosoricida
|
0.72
|
0.17
|
0.77
|
0.65
|
0.15
| |
|
Macroscelidea
|
0.30
|
0.44
|
0.34
|
0.65
|
0.17
| |
|
Hyracoidea
|
3.40
|
9.14
|
3.38
|
3.38
|
3.56
|
>4 (Heterohyrax)
|
|
Proboscidea
|
1,478.15
|
949.76
|
1039.24
|
1,460.62
|
2,928.50
|
>2,000 (Palaeomastodon)
|
|
Sirenia
|
90.33
|
204.84
|
53.41
|
87.24
|
341.12
|
488.1 (Halitherium)
|
- Reconstructed values are provided for the most recent common ancestors of extant taxa in the specified clades. The right column details a selection of oldest fossil taxa within each clade for which body mass estimates are available [data from [56]-[65]].
