Haplaletes

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApheliscidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 60.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 57.5 Mya.
31 occurrences of Haplaletes 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
31 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
8 formations
- Fort Union Formation20
- Nacimiento Formation2
- Evanston Formation2
- Tullock Formation1
- North Horn Formation1
- Hanna Formation1
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The named rock units Haplaletes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Haplaletes and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Haplaletes and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
289 taxa- Promioclaenus acolytus15 sites
- Litomylus dissentaneus10 sites
- Tricentes subtrigonus9 sites
- Ptilodus8 sites
- Acmeodon secans7 sites
- Anisonchus sectorius7 sites
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis7 sites
- Arctocyon ferox6 sites
- Bryanictis microlestes6 sites
- Chriacus baldwini6 sites
- Litaletes disjunctus6 sites
- Nannodectes intermedius6 sites
- Protictis haydenianus6 sites
- Adunator ladae5 sites
- Anconodon cochranensis5 sites
- Aphronorus fraudator5 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis5 sites
- Chriacus pelvidens5 sites
- Ectocion collinus5 sites
- Gelastops5 sites
- Neoplagiaulax5 sites
- Paromomys depressidens5 sites
- Torrejonia sirokyi5 sites
- Arctocyon corrugatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Haplaletes, 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
15 references- A new middle Paleocene (early Tiffanian) mammalian fauna from the Overland Member of the Fort Union Formation, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A.10
- Paleontology and biostratigraphy of lower part of Polecat Bench Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming5
- Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico2
- Geologic setting of a new Paleocene mammal locality in the northern Powder River basin, Montana2
- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary2
- A New Late Paleocene Vertebrate Fauna from the Ohio Creek Formation of Western Colorado1
- Paleocene mammalian biostratigraphy of the Carbon Basin, southeastern Wyoming, and age constraints on local phases of tectonism1
- Paleocene (Puercan-Torrejonian) mammalian faunas of the North Horn Formation, central Utah1
- Swain Quarry of the Fort Union Formation, Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian), Carbon County, Wyoming: geologic setting and mammalian fauna1
- Late Paleocene (Tiffanian) mammalian fauna of two localities in eastern Montana1
- The beginning of the Age of Mammals1
- Vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology of Paleocene Black Peaks Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas1
Each of the 31 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. 3 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 Haplaletes
- 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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itApheliscidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1935