Anacodon ursidens

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnacodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Arctocyonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Arctocyonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
26 occurrences of Anacodon ursidens on record. 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
26 occurrencesThese 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 Anacodon ursidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
182 taxa- Esthonyx bisulcatus21 sites
- Cantius abditus20 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani17 sites
- Coryphodon14 sites
- Diacodexis metsiacus14 sites
- Arenahippus pernix12 sites
- Heptodon calciculus12 sites
- Hyopsodus12 sites
- Vulpavus australis12 sites
- Absarokius metoecus11 sites
- Absarokius abbotti10 sites
- Bunophorus etsagicus10 sites
- Didymictis10 sites
- Microsyops latidens10 sites
- Palaeictops bicuspis10 sites
- Hyopsodus minor9 sites
- Paramys excavatus9 sites
- Phenacolemurinae9 sites
- Prototomus9 sites
- Bunophorus8 sites
- Palaeosinopa veterrima8 sites
- Paramys copei8 sites
- Vassacyon promicrodon8 sites
- Copecion brachypternus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Anacodon ursidens, 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
5 references- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary12
- Faunal Zonation of the Willwood Formation in the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming8
- Distribution and stratigraphic correlation of upper Paleocene and lower Eocene fossil mammal and plant localities of the Fort Union, Willwood, and Tatman formations, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming4
- Late Paleocene (Tiffanian) mammalian fauna of two localities in eastern Montana1
- The mammalian fauna of the Lysite Member, Wind River Formation (early Eocene) of Wyoming1
Each of the 26 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 content1

Picture of Anacodon ursidens
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anacodon ursidens 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1882