Alveugena carbonensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlveugenaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Alveugena
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Cimolestidae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Alveugena carbonensis 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
2 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 Alveugena carbonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alveugena carbonensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Alveugena carbonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Alticonus gazini1 site
- Ampliconus antoni1 site
- Baioconodon middletoni1 site
- Boremys1 site
- Champsosaurus1 site
- Cyclurus fragosus1 site
- Ectoconus cavigellii1 site
- Eusuchia1 site
- Lepisosteidae1 site
- Loxolophus hyattianus1 site
- Loxolophus priscus1 site
- Mithrandir gillianus1 site
- Oxyacodon agapetillus1 site
- Oxyacodon priscilla1 site
- Periptychidae1 site
- Scapherpeton tectum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Alveugena carbonensis, 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
2 references- Lower jaw of the Early Paleocene mammal Alveugena and its interpretation as a transitional fossil1
- Bridging the transition between didelphodonts and taeniodonts1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Alveugena carbonensis
- 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 Alveugena carbonensis 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 itAlveugena through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eberle 1999