Elpidophorus minor

Elpidophorus minor

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElpidophorusPBDB
Diet
folivorePBDB, for Dermoptera
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Dermoptera
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 5.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63.9 Mya57 Mya

4 occurrences of Elpidophorus minor 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

4 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

4 formations

Paskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WPorcupine Hills — 51.10°N, 114.28°W

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

Elpidophorus minor and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Elpidophorus minor and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Elpidophorus minor, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Elpidophorus minor

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Elpidophorus minor 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.

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What may have been alongside itElpidophorus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1937