Copelemur australotutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CopelemurPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Copelemur australotutus 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
8 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Copelemur australotutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Copelemur australotutus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Copelemur australotutus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Equidae7 sites
- Protorohippus venticolum5 sites
- Cantius frugivorus4 sites
- Hexacodus uintensis3 sites
- Paramys excavatus3 sites
- Bunophorus grangeri2 sites
- Coryphodon2 sites
- Diacodexis secans2 sites
- Didymictis protenus2 sites
- Haplomylus scottianus2 sites
- Hyopsodus2 sites
- Hyopsodus minor2 sites
- Hyopsodus powellianus2 sites
- Meniscotherium chamense2 sites
- Miacidae2 sites
- Palaeanodon2 sites
- Apatemys bellulus1 site
- Didymictis altidens1 site
- Ectoganus1 site
- Esthonyx1 site
- Esthonyx bisulcatus1 site
- Heptodon1 site
- Herpetotherium innominatum1 site
- Knightomys depressus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Copelemur australotutus, 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, mammalian paleontology, paleoecology, and age correlation of the Wasatch Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming6
- New notharctine primate fossils from the early Eocene of New Mexico and southern Wyoming and the phylogeny of Notharctinae2
Each of the 8 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
Media content2
Picture of Copelemur australotutus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Copelemur australotutus · University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM):Vertebrate:44251
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCopelemur through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beard 1988