Cantius trigonodus
Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- CantiusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
26 occurrences of Cantius trigonodus 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
26 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cantius trigonodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cantius trigonodus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cantius trigonodus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Arenahippus pernix25 sites
- Homogalax protapirinus23 sites
- Hyopsodus latidens23 sites
- Diacodexis metsiacus20 sites
- Esthonyx bisulcatus16 sites
- Haplomylus scottianus15 sites
- Coryphodon radians14 sites
- Allognathosuchus12 sites
- Didymictis protenus11 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius11 sites
- Phenacodus trilobatus10 sites
- Tetonius matthewi9 sites
- Bunophorus etsagicus8 sites
- Crocodylia8 sites
- Rodentia8 sites
- Arfia opisthotoma7 sites
- Paramys copei7 sites
- Plagiomene multicuspis7 sites
- Testudines7 sites
- Viverravus acutus7 sites
- Coryphodon lobatus6 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus6 sites
- Paramys taurus6 sites
- Prototomus robustus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Cantius trigonodus, 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
2 references- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary25
- Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of early Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America1
Each of the 26 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 content1
Picture of Cantius trigonodus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cantius trigonodus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCantius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1915)