Azygonyx ancylion
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AzygonyxPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Tillodontia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tillodontia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 1.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 57.5 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Azygonyx ancylion 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
16 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Azygonyx ancylion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Azygonyx ancylion and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Azygonyx ancylion and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Ectocion osbornianus16 sites
- Coryphodon14 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius14 sites
- Didymictis proteus11 sites
- Dillerlemur pagei11 sites
- Plesiadapis cookei10 sites
- Haplomylus simpsoni8 sites
- Borealosuchus formidabilis5 sites
- Carpolestes simpsoni5 sites
- Dipsalidictis aequidens5 sites
- Dissacus praenuntius5 sites
- Emydidae5 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani5 sites
- Probathyopsis praecursor5 sites
- Chriacus4 sites
- Melanosaurus maximus4 sites
- Palaeosinopa4 sites
- Peradectes protinnominatus4 sites
- Thryptacodon antiquus4 sites
- Uintacyon rudis4 sites
- Viverravus laytoni4 sites
- Aletodon gunnelli3 sites
- Arctostylops steini3 sites
- Didymictis protenus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Azygonyx ancylion, 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- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary14
- The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming1
- Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance, Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming1
Each of the 16 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 content0
No picture of Azygonyx ancylion was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Azygonyx ancylion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Azygonyx ancylion 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 itAzygonyx through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gingerich and Gunnell 1979)