Ectypodus

Ectypodus is an extinct genus of mammals, containing the species E. aphronorus, E. childei, E. musculus, E. lovei, E. powelli, E. szalayi, and E. tardus.

Ectypodus

Petr P. Gambaryan and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska · 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
NeoplagiaulacidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Neoplagiaulacidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Ptilodontoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 123 occurrencesPaleocene — about 58 of 123 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 65 of 123 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 123 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 9 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 10 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 10 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 10 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 10 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 10 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 10 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 10 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 10 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63.4 Mya37 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

123 occurrences of Ectypodus 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

123 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

25 formations

Willwood — 44.78°N, 108.97°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.77°N, 109.08°WWillwood — 44.54°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.58°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 52.23°N, 113.63°WPaskapoo — 51.50°N, 112.30°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 51.90°N, 113.30°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.85°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WBlack Peaks — 29.42°N, 103.10°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°EBear — 46.20°N, 109.90°WSlope — 46.70°N, 101.80°WHoback — 42.70°N, 110.10°WEvanston — 41.58°N, 110.68°WMelville — 45.80°N, 109.80°WClimbing Arrow — 46.00°N, 112.00°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WTielt — 51.01°N, 3.23°EMargaret — 78.67°N, 81.90°WLignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°EWoolwich — 51.37°N, 0.09°W

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The named rock units Ectypodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ectypodus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ectypodus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,347 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Ectypodus, 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

55 references

Each of the 123 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. 43 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 content1

Picture of Ectypodus

Credit
Petr P. Gambaryan and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ectypodus 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1921