Diacodon alticuspis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiacodonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- 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.
2 occurrences of Diacodon alticuspis 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Diacodon alticuspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diacodon alticuspis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Diacodon alticuspis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Cantius abditus1 site
- Choctawius mckennai1 site
- Diacodexis metsiacus1 site
- Didymictis1 site
- Equidae1 site
- Esthonyx1 site
- Esthonyx bisulcatus1 site
- Glyptosaurinae1 site
- Heptodon1 site
- Hyopsodus lysitensis1 site
- Hyopsodus powellianus1 site
- Hyracotherium1 site
- Lophiparamys debequensis1 site
- Macrocranion nitens1 site
- Microsyops latidens1 site
- Mytonomys coloradensis1 site
- Palaeictops bicuspis1 site
- Paramys copei1 site
- Paramys excavatus1 site
- Pelycodus jarrovii1 site
- Phenacodus vortmani1 site
- Prodiacodon tauricinerei1 site
- Prototomus martis1 site
- Simpsonodus chacensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Diacodon alticuspis, 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- Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado1
- Diacodon alticuspis, an erinaceomorph insectivore from the early Eocene of northern New Mexico1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Diacodon alticuspis 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 Diacodon alticuspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diacodon alticuspis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDiacodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1875