Condylarthra

Condylarthra is an informal group – previously considered an order – of extinct placental mammals, known primarily from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. They are considered early, primitive ungulates and is now largely considered to be a wastebasket taxon, having served as a dumping ground for classifying ungulates which had not been clearly established as part of either Perissodactyla or Artiodactyla, being composed thus of several unrelated lineages.

Condylarthra

Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
EpitheriaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1295 occurrencesPaleocene — about 242 of 1295 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1053 of 1295 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 1295 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 10 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 23 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 26 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 56 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 55 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 20 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 15 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 18 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 12 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 87 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 186 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 186 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 186 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 181 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 42 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 42 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 40 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 36 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 26 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 9 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 9 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63.4 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

1,295 occurrences of Condylarthra 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

1,295 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

85 formations

Willwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.80°N, 109.10°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.81°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.72°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.57°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.83°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.41°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.33°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.35°N, 108.75°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.31°N, 108.00°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 36.18°N, 107.58°WNacimiento — 36.27°N, 107.76°WNacimiento — 36.20°N, 107.78°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.20°N, 110.50°WWasatch — 42.07°N, 109.10°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.78°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 110.75°WWasatch — 41.85°N, 110.75°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.22°N, 109.72°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 41.37°N, 109.82°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.80°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 41.68°N, 107.52°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WSanta Lucía — 18.03°S, 65.58°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WAycross — 43.90°N, 110.80°WAycross — 44.30°N, 109.00°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.40°N, 108.29°WLignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.15°N, 3.92°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°EHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WBlack Peaks — 29.28°N, 103.55°WBlack Peaks — 29.46°N, 103.15°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.28°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.70°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.86°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 45.80°N, 109.80°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 46.20°N, 109.90°WHannold Hill — 29.42°N, 103.14°WGreen River — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°W

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The named rock units Condylarthra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Condylarthra and its relatives

Eocene

Where Condylarthra and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

822 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 954 sites for Condylarthra, and this reads 240 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

174 references

Each of the 1,295 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. 162 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 Condylarthra

Credit
Dmitry Bogdanov
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Condylarthra 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEpitheria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1881)