Microcosmodon harleyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrocosmodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Multituberculata
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Multituberculata
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Microcosmodon harleyi 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Microcosmodon harleyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Microcosmodon harleyi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Microcosmodon harleyi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Cimolestidae4 sites
- Betonnia tsosia3 sites
- Eoconodon hutchisoni3 sites
- Acipenser albertensis2 sites
- Dasyatidae2 sites
- Eoconodon nidhoggi2 sites
- Oxyacodon ferronensis2 sites
- Peradectes minor2 sites
- Prodiacodon crustulum2 sites
- Thylacodon pusillus2 sites
- Acanthomorphata1 site
- Acipenser eruciferus1 site
- aff. Lindoeichthys sp.1 site
- Alligatorinae1 site
- Anura1 site
- Aves1 site
- Contogenys sloani1 site
- Coriops1 site
- Crustulus fontanus1 site
- Dasyatis1 site
- Esox1 site
- Exostinus lancensis1 site
- Glyptosaurinae1 site
- Habrosaurus dilatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Microcosmodon harleyi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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
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No picture of Microcosmodon harleyi 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 Microcosmodon harleyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microcosmodon harleyi 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.
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What may have been alongside itMicrocosmodon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weil 1998