Ernestokokenia
Ernestokokenia is an extinct genus of mammal, belonging to the Didolodontidae. It lived during the Early Eocene and the Middle Eocene, and its fossils were discovered in South America.
No picture of Ernestokokenia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Ernestokokenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DidolodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 57 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
14 occurrences of Ernestokokenia 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Las Flores Formation · Río Chico Group4
- Sarmiento Formation2
- Abanico Formation1
- Geste Formation · Pastos Grande Group1
- Quebrada de los Colorados Formation · Payogastilla Group1
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The named rock units Ernestokokenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ernestokokenia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ernestokokenia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
211 taxa- Henricosbornia lophodonta5 sites
- Isotemnus5 sites
- Notopithecus adapinus5 sites
- Notostylops murinus5 sites
- Antepithecus brachystephanus4 sites
- Archaeopithecus rogeri4 sites
- Notoungulata4 sites
- Pleurostylodon modicus4 sites
- Trigonostylopidae4 sites
- Trigonostylops wortmani4 sites
- Albertogaudrya unica3 sites
- Colbertia3 sites
- Didolodus multicuspis3 sites
- Isotemnus latidens3 sites
- Isotemnus primitivus3 sites
- Mammalia3 sites
- Maxschlosseria praeterita3 sites
- Notostylops3 sites
- Oldfieldthomasia debilitata3 sites
- Paginula parca3 sites
- Pleurostylodon similis3 sites
- Thomashuxleya rostrata3 sites
- Transpithecus obtentus3 sites
- Trigonostylops3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ernestokokenia, 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
8 references- The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part I6
- Descriptions of the oldest known South American mammals, from the Rio Chico Formation2
- New Paleogene South American native ungulates from the Quebrada de los Colorados Formation at Los Cardones National Park, Argentina1
- A reassessment of bunodont metatherians from the Paleogene of Itaborai (Brazil): Systematics and the age of the Itaborian SALMA1
- Paleogene faunal assemblage from Antofagasta de la Sierra (Catamarca Province, Argentina)1
- New ?early Tertiary localities from the Chilean Andes1
- Biostratigraphy of the Casamayoran, Early Eocene of Patagonia1
- Occurrence and relationships of the Rio Chico fauna of Patagonia1
Each of the 14 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 content0
No picture of Ernestokokenia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ernestokokenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ernestokokenia 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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What may have been alongside itDidolodontidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1901