Altilambda
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PastoralodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Pantodonta
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Pantodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Pantodonta
Time the record covers
At least 760 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 60.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 57.5 Mya.
8 occurrences of Altilambda 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Altilambda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Altilambda and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Altilambda and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Arctostylopidae2 sites
- Haltictops meilingensis2 sites
- Minchenella grandis2 sites
- Petrolemur brevirostre2 sites
- Yuelophus validus2 sites
- Anictops tabiepedis1 site
- Archaeolambdidae1 site
- Diacronus wanghuensis1 site
- Ernanodon1 site
- Ernanodon antelios1 site
- Haltictops1 site
- Huaiyangale leura1 site
- Lestes datangensis1 site
- Mimotona wana1 site
- Pachyaena1 site
- Planocrania datangensis1 site
- Yantanglestes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Altilambda, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
5 references- A New Pantodont Genus from the Paleocene of S. China3
- Some Taligrads from Upper Paleocene of the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong2
- A skull of Altilambda (Mammalia, Pantodonta) from the Paleocene of Qianshan, Anhui1
- A new species of Planocrania from Hengdong, Hunan1
- The Paleogene mammals of China1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Altilambda was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Altilambda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Altilambda 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPastoralodontidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chow and Wang 1978