Ectocion osbornianus

Ectocion osbornianus

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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 least 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Paleocene — about 163 of 280 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 117 of 280 occurrencesEocene61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 26 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 46 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 46 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 36 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 11 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 11 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 11 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 11 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 11 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 11 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 11 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 11 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 11 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 11 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57.5 Mya – 56 Mya61.4 Mya47.6 Mya

280 occurrences of Ectocion osbornianus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

280 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

9 formations

Willwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.89°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.55°N, 108.66°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°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 — 44.68°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.85°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 44.50°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 108.20°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 44.68°N, 108.34°WFort Union — 44.69°N, 108.36°WFort Union — 44.67°N, 108.46°WFort Union — 44.15°N, 107.86°WFort Union — 44.83°N, 108.82°WFort Union — 44.86°N, 108.89°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.02°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.89°WFort Union — 44.90°N, 109.05°WFort Union — 41.75°N, 109.04°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.24°N, 110.19°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.27°N, 108.18°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WIndian Meadows — 43.20°N, 108.20°W

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The named rock units Ectocion osbornianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 102 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ectocion osbornianus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Ectocion osbornianus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

401 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 279 sites for Ectocion osbornianus, 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

24 references

Each of the 280 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. 12 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 content2

Picture of Ectocion osbornianus

Source
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Credit
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Licence
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Specimen
Ectocion osbornianus · CM:VertPaleo:79144

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1882)