Conacodon harbourae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConacodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Periptychidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Periptychidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Conacodon harbourae 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Conacodon harbourae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conacodon harbourae and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Conacodon harbourae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Ampliconus antoni1 site
- Beornus honeyi1 site
- Conacodon hettingeri1 site
- Maiorana noctiluca1 site
- Mesodma ambigua1 site
- Mimatuta1 site
- Miniconus jeanninae1 site
- Oxyprimus1 site
- Protungulatum donnae1 site
- Sigynorum magnadivisus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Conacodon harbourae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- New earliest Paleocene (Puercan) periptychid ‘condylarths’ from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA1
- A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history1
Each of the 2 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. 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 Conacodon harbourae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Conacodon harbourae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itConacodon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eberle and Lillegraven 1998