Leptictidae

Leptictidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptictidaPBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 31.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 29.5 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 334 occurrencesPaleocene — about 87 of 334 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 219 of 334 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 28 of 334 occurrencesOligocene67–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 10 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 15 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 15 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 14 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 15 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 7 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 24 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 42 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 42 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 42 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 19 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 7 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 15 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 10 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63.4 Mya31.8 Mya66.7 Mya28.8 Mya

334 occurrences of Leptictidae 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

334 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

40 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.39°N, 108.71°WWillwood — 44.39°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 110.50°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.89°N, 108.91°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFort Union — 45.10°N, 106.90°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.58°N, 107.05°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 109.12°WFort Union — 41.68°N, 107.52°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WBrule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WChadron — 42.90°N, 105.20°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.00°N, 107.17°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WLignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ETullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WTullock — 47.60°N, 107.00°WWutu — 36.52°N, 118.92°ERavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WGolden Valley — 46.90°N, 102.80°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WTepee Trail — 43.20°N, 108.20°WTepee Trail — 43.54°N, 109.61°WCollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°EBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°E

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The named rock units Leptictidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptictidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Leptictidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,885 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 256 sites for Leptictidae, and this reads 240 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

108 references

Each of the 334 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. 96 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 content2

Picture of Leptictidae

Credit
Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
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CT scan

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not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Leptictidae indet. · UCMP:V:218857

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1872