Ectocion ignotum

No picture of Ectocion ignotum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ectocion ignotum itself, so it was not used. 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 Ectocion ignotum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EctocionPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Phenacodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Phenacodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 4.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEocene56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56.5 Mya50.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Ectocion ignotum 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 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

1 formation

Las Tetas de Cabra — 28.68°N, 114.08°W

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

Ectocion ignotum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ectocion ignotum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ectocion ignotum, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Ectocion ignotum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ectocion ignotum itself, so it was not used.

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 Ectocion ignotum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ectocion ignotum 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 itEctocion through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Novacek et al. 1991