Anconodon cochranensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnconodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cimolodontidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Ptilodontoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
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.
15 occurrences of Anconodon cochranensis 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
15 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Anconodon cochranensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anconodon cochranensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Anconodon cochranensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
224 taxa- Bessoecetor septentrionalis8 sites
- Arctocyon corrugatus7 sites
- Mesodma pygmaea7 sites
- Promioclaenus acolytus7 sites
- Bryanictis microlestes6 sites
- Litomylus dissentaneus6 sites
- Mimetodon silberlingi6 sites
- Neoplagiaulax6 sites
- Ptilodus6 sites
- Anconodon gidleyi5 sites
- Aphronorus fraudator5 sites
- Jepsenella praepropera5 sites
- Leptacodon munusculum5 sites
- Neoplagiaulacidae5 sites
- Palenochtha minor5 sites
- Plesiadapis praecursor5 sites
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis5 sites
- Thryptacodon orthogonius5 sites
- Tricentes subtrigonus5 sites
- Anisonchus sectorius4 sites
- Arctocyon ferox4 sites
- Baiotomeus douglassi4 sites
- Ectocion collinus4 sites
- Eudaemonema cuspidata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Anconodon cochranensis, 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
10 references- Paleontology and biostratigraphy of lower part of Polecat Bench Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming3
- Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta2
- Paleocene and latest Cretaceous mammal ages, biozones, magnetozones, rates of sedimentation, and evolution2
- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary2
- First mammals from the Paleocene Porcupine Hills Formation of southwestern Alberta, Canada1
- Late Torrejonian (middle Paleocene) mammals from south central Alberta, Canada1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- The succession of Paleocene mammals in western Canada1
- The biogeographic origins of late Paleocene - early Eocene mammalian immigrants to the Western Interior of North America1
- Mammalian Fauna from Douglass Quarry, Earliest Tiffanian (Late Paleocene) of the Eastern Crazy Mountain Basin, Montana1
Each of the 15 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
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Picture of Anconodon cochranensis
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No 3D scan of Anconodon cochranensis 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 itAnconodon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Russell 1929)