Apatemyidae

Apatemyidae is an extinct family of placental mammals that took part in the first placental evolutionary radiation together with other early mammals, such as the leptictids. Their relationships to other mammal groups are controversial; a 2010 study found them to be basal members of Euarchontoglires.

Apatemyidae

Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ApatotheriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
arborealPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 18.5 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 246 occurrencesPaleocene — about 42 of 246 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 196 of 246 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 246 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 246 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 7 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 11 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 12 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 18 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 26 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 26 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 23 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 18 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 15 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 12 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 9 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 12 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 9 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 11 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 13 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya27.3 Mya67 Mya17.6 Mya

246 occurrences of Apatemyidae 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

246 occurrences

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

50 formations

Willwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.51°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.74°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.40°N, 108.72°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.85°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.90°N, 103.63°WChadron — 42.81°N, 103.59°WLignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.15°N, 3.92°ELignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°EWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 51.50°N, 112.30°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WCreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WSantiago — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°ESilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WCollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°ESan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WTienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°E

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The named rock units Apatemyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apatemyidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Apatemyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,479 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 204 sites for Apatemyidae, 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

103 references

Each of the 246 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. 91 further references are not listed. 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 Apatemyidae

Credit
Chris Woodrich
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Apatemyidae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Matthew 1909