Gaylordia macrocynodonta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GaylordiaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gaylordia macrocynodonta 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gaylordia macrocynodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gaylordia macrocynodonta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gaylordia macrocynodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Asmithwoodwardia scotti1 site
- Australidelphia1 site
- Austropediomys marshalli1 site
- Aves1 site
- Bergqvistherium primigenia1 site
- Bobbschaefferia1 site
- Bobbschaefferia fluminensis1 site
- Borhyaenidae1 site
- Camargomendesia1 site
- Carodnia vieirai1 site
- Carolocoutoia ferigoloi1 site
- Carolopaulacoutoia itaboraiensis1 site
- Colbertia magellanica1 site
- Derorhynchus singularis1 site
- Didelphidae1 site
- Didelphopsis cabrerai1 site
- Didolodontidae1 site
- Diogenesia brevirostris1 site
- Eobrasilia coutoi1 site
- Eocaiman itaboraiensis1 site
- Epidolops ameghinoi1 site
- Eutreptodactylus itaboraiensis1 site
- Gashternia carioca1 site
- Gaylordia mater1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gaylordia macrocynodonta, 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
2 references- Didelfidos fosiles del Paleoceno de Brasil1
- Fossil mammals from the beginning of the Cenozoic in Brazil. Marsupialia: Didelphidae1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Gaylordia macrocynodonta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Gaylordia macrocynodonta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGaylordia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Paula Couto 1952