Eudinoceras

Eudinoceras is an extinct genus of pantodont in the family Coryphodontidae. The first fossils were discovered in the Irdin Manha Formation by palaeontologists Henry Fairfield Osborn and Roy Chapman Andrews in 1923, and were assigned to the genus Eudinoceras, due to both thinking it was a dinoceratan closely related to Dinoceras. As more complete specimens were recovered, the animal was identified as a pantodont more related to the genus Coryphodon.

Eudinoceras

ДиБгд · CC BY 4.0 · 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
CoryphodontidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Pantodonta
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Pantodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Pantodonta

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

20 occurrences of Eudinoceras 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

20 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

10 formations

Arshanto — 43.65°N, 111.98°EArshanto — 43.33°N, 111.76°EArshanto — 40.00°N, 111.00°EArshanto — 43.15°N, 111.58°ELushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EHuangzhuang — 35.60°N, 117.03°EDongjun — 23.51°N, 107.34°EKholboldchi — 45.18°N, 100.67°EUlan Gocho — 42.63°N, 111.35°EGuanzhuang — 35.91°N, 117.78°EUqbulak — 46.27°N, 88.02°EShara Murum — 42.04°N, 111.53°EYangxi — 30.83°N, 111.78°E

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The named rock units Eudinoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eudinoceras and its relatives

Eocene

Where Eudinoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Eudinoceras, 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

13 references

Each of the 20 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. 1 further reference is 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 Eudinoceras

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No 3D scan of Eudinoceras 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCoryphodontidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Osborn 1924