Antiacodon venustus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AntiacodonPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Antiacodon venustus 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
9 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
3 formations
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group6
- Bridger Formation2
- Kishenehn Formation1
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The named rock units Antiacodon venustus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Antiacodon venustus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Antiacodon venustus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Metanoiamys agorus5 sites
- Patriolestes novaceki5 sites
- Achaenodon robustus2 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus2 sites
- Leptoreodon marshi2 sites
- Microparamys minutus2 sites
- Palaeosyops fontinalis2 sites
- Pareumys grangeri2 sites
- Protoreodon parvus2 sites
- Sciuravus powayensis2 sites
- Stockia powayensis2 sites
- Anaptomorphus westi1 site
- Antiacodon pygmaeus1 site
- Anura1 site
- Apatemys bellulus1 site
- Apatemys bellus1 site
- Boverisuchus vorax1 site
- Brontotheriidae1 site
- Centetodon altidens1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Epihippus gracilis1 site
- Erinaceomorpha1 site
- Helohyus lentus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Antiacodon venustus, 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
3 references- Bunodont artiodactyls (Mammalia) from the Uintan (middle Eocene) of San Diego County, California7
- Mammalian fauna of the Middle Eoene Kishenehn Formation, Middle Fork of the Flathead River, Montana1
- Paleontology and Geology of the Bridger Formation, Southern Green River Basin, Southwestern Wyoming. Part 7. Survey of Bridgerian Artiodactyla, including description of a skull and partial skeleton of Antiacodon pygmaeus1
Each of the 9 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 Antiacodon venustus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Antiacodon venustus 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 itAntiacodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1872