Catopsalis kakwa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CatopsalisPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Taeniolabididae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Multituberculata
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 60.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Catopsalis kakwa 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Catopsalis kakwa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Catopsalis kakwa and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Catopsalis kakwa and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Eudaemonema bohachae3 sites
- Paromomys borealis3 sites
- Ptilodus wyomingensis3 sites
- Promioclaenus thnetus2 sites
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Alopocosmodon hadrus1 site
- Anconodon gidleyi1 site
- Aphronorus bearspawensis1 site
- Aphronorus fraudator1 site
- Arctocyon ferox1 site
- Baiotomeus1 site
- Baiotomeus russelli1 site
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis1 site
- Bryanictis microlestes1 site
- Choristodera1 site
- Chriacus punitor1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Elpidophorus elegans1 site
- Elpidophorus minor1 site
- Goniacodon levisanus1 site
- Ignacius fremontensis1 site
- Ignacius frugivorus1 site
- Lissamphibia1 site
- Pararyctes pattersoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Catopsalis kakwa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Catopsalis kakwa 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 Catopsalis kakwa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Catopsalis kakwa 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 itCatopsalis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott et al. 2018