Adunator ladae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AdunatorPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Adunator ladae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Adunator ladae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Adunator ladae and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Adunator ladae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Promioclaenus acolytus6 sites
- Tricentes subtrigonus6 sites
- Litomylus dissentaneus5 sites
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis5 sites
- Anisonchus sectorius4 sites
- Chriacus baldwini4 sites
- Haplaletes disceptatrix4 sites
- Anconodon cochranensis3 sites
- Arctocyon corrugatus3 sites
- Baiotomeus douglassi3 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis3 sites
- Bryanictis microlestes3 sites
- Gelastops parcus3 sites
- Jepsenella praepropera3 sites
- Litaletes disjunctus3 sites
- Mimetodon silberlingi3 sites
- Neoplagiaulax grangeri3 sites
- Palenochtha minor3 sites
- Paromomys depressidens3 sites
- Protictis haydenianus3 sites
- Acmeodon secans2 sites
- Anconodon gidleyi2 sites
- Aphronorus2 sites
- Aphronorus fraudator2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Adunator ladae, 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
4 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals4
- Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico1
- Paleontology and biostratigraphy of lower part of Polecat Bench Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming1
- Mammalian paleontology of the Fort Union Formation (Paleocene), eastern Rock Springs Uplift, Sweetwater County, Wyoming1
Each of the 7 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 Adunator ladae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Adunator ladae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAdunator through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Simpson 1935)