Ambloctonus sinosus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmbloctonusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Oxyaenidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Oxyaenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ambloctonus sinosus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Ambloctonus sinosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ambloctonus sinosus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ambloctonus sinosus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Didymictis3 sites
- Esthonyx bisulcatus3 sites
- Absarokius metoecus2 sites
- Copecion brachypternus2 sites
- Hyopsodus2 sites
- Knightomys depressus2 sites
- Microsyopidae2 sites
- Paramys copei2 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani2 sites
- Sifrhippus grangeri2 sites
- Vulpavus australis2 sites
- <Korth paramyine>1 site
- Absarokius abbotti1 site
- Anacodon ursidens1 site
- Apatemys bellulus1 site
- Arenahippus aemulor1 site
- Arenahippus pernix1 site
- Bunophorus1 site
- Bunophorus grangeri1 site
- Bunophorus macropternus1 site
- Cantius1 site
- Cantius abditus1 site
- Cantius angulatus1 site
- Cantius frugivorus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ambloctonus sinosus, 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
2 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Faunal Zonation of the Willwood Formation in the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming1
Each of the 3 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 Ambloctonus sinosus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ambloctonus sinosus 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 itAmbloctonus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1875