Cimolomyidae

Cimolomyidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Late Cretaceous of North America and Mongolia, from the late Santonian to their extinction at the end of the Maastrichtian. The family is part of the suborder Cimolodonta. Other than that, their systematic relationships are hard to define. Some authors have placed the taxon within Taeniolabidoidea. Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum (2001) expressly don't.

Cimolomyidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 295 of 295 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 295 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 5 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 5 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 5 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 5 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 5 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 5 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 5 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 18 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 23 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 23 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 23 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 23 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 23 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 23 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 23 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 23 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 6 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya86.2 Mya65.5 Mya

295 occurrences of Cimolomyidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

295 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

29 formations

Hell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.98°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 104.50°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.38°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 107.08°WHell Creek — 47.58°N, 106.30°WHell Creek — 47.87°N, 106.18°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.65°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.10°N, 104.80°WHell Creek — 47.70°N, 106.55°WHell Creek — 45.40°N, 105.60°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.23°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 45.76°N, 104.92°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.10°N, 104.60°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 44.94°N, 108.85°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.52°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WLance — 45.04°N, 108.80°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.65°WLance — 44.24°N, 109.02°WJudith River — 46.42°N, 109.27°WJudith River — 48.92°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 48.57°N, 109.68°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WOldman — 50.78°N, 110.50°WOldman — 49.30°N, 110.60°WOldman — 50.50°N, 110.30°WOldman — 50.90°N, 111.80°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.14°N, 110.85°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.90°WWahweap — 37.60°N, 111.35°WMesaverde — 44.08°N, 107.74°WMesaverde — 43.20°N, 107.10°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WMesaverde — 44.12°N, 107.76°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.10°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.20°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WAguja — 29.20°N, 103.20°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WAguja — 29.30°N, 103.57°WKaiparowits — 37.40°N, 111.20°WKaiparowits — 37.80°N, 111.50°WLaramie — 40.39°N, 104.49°WLaramie — 40.80°N, 104.65°WLaramie — 40.80°N, 104.47°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WFruitland — 36.30°N, 108.20°WKirtland — 36.30°N, 108.20°WKirtland — 36.31°N, 108.05°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WFox Hills — 45.13°N, 101.80°WFox Hills — 44.50°N, 102.30°WOjo Alamo — 36.30°N, 108.20°WOjo Alamo — 36.24°N, 108.89°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WScollard — 51.80°N, 113.00°WWilliams Fork — 40.29°N, 107.86°WWilliams Fork — 40.03°N, 108.85°WIron Springs — 37.80°N, 112.82°WIron Springs — 37.90°N, 112.74°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WPictured Cliffs Sandstone — 35.70°N, 107.00°WJudith River — 49.10°N, 109.50°WFerris — 41.96°N, 106.89°W

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The named rock units Cimolomyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cimolomyidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cimolomyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

720 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 186 sites for Cimolomyidae, 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

69 references

Each of the 295 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. 57 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 Cimolomyidae

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nobody named on the record
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CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cimolomyidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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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. Sloan and Van Valen 1965