Diplacodon

Diplacodon is an extinct genus of horned brontothere that lived in North America during the Middle Eocene, in the late Uintan land mammal age. Two Diplacodon species are recognized, the type species D. elatus from the Uinta Formation and the larger D. gigan from the Wiggins Formation.

Diplacodon

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · 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
BrontotheriinaPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 8.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 37 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesEocene46–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46.4 Mya36.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Diplacodon 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

10 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

3 formations

Uinta — 40.07°N, 109.28°WUinta — 40.15°N, 109.62°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WPondaung — 21.77°N, 94.60°EPondaung — 21.75°N, 94.68°EBaca — 33.50°N, 108.80°W

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The named rock units Diplacodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Diplacodon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Diplacodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diplacodon, 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

6 references

Each of the 10 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 content2

Picture of Diplacodon

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Diplacodon progressum · FMNH:P:14633

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 itBrontotheriina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1875