Campanorco inauguralis
Campanorco is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammal from the Middle Eocene Lumbrera Formation, Argentina, South America and the only member of the family Campanorcidae. It contains only a single species, Campanorco inauguralis.

Rodrigues, H. G.; Cornette, R. ; Clavel, J.; Cassini, G.; Bhart-Anjan, S. B.; Fernández-Monescillo, M., Moreno, K.; H… · CC BY 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
- CampanorcoPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Campanorco inauguralis 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Campanorco inauguralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Campanorco inauguralis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Campanorco inauguralis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Campanorco inauguralis, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Campanorco inauguralis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Rodrigues, H. G.; Cornette, R. ; Clavel, J.; Cassini, G.; Bhart-Anjan, S. B.; Fernández-Monescillo, M., Moreno, K.; H…
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Campanorco inauguralis 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Campanorco”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCampanorco through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bond et al. 1984