Mimatuta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArctocyonidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Arctocyonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Arctocyonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
61 occurrences of Mimatuta 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
61 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Hell Creek Formation40
- Fort Union Formation14
- Ferris Formation3
- Tullock Formation1
- Ravenscrag Formation1
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The named rock units Mimatuta 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.
Mimatuta and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Mimatuta and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Mesodma26 sites
- Protungulatum donnae26 sites
- Procerberus formicarum25 sites
- Stygimys kuszmauli25 sites
- Baioconodon nordicus22 sites
- Oxyprimus erikseni22 sites
- Stygimys gratus19 sites
- Cimexomys minor18 sites
- Protungulatum gorgun13 sites
- Mesodma thompsoni9 sites
- Mesodma formosa8 sites
- Thylacodon pusillus8 sites
- Catopsalis alexanderi6 sites
- Mesodma hensleighi6 sites
- Thylacodon montanensis6 sites
- Baioconodon engdahli5 sites
- Teleostei5 sites
- Valenopsalis joyneri5 sites
- Catopsalis4 sites
- Acanthomorphata3 sites
- Baioconodon3 sites
- Esox3 sites
- Estesesox3 sites
- Mesodma ambigua3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Mimatuta, 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
10 references- The Bug Creek problem and the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition at McGuire Creek, Montana35
- A study of Mammalia and geology across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Garfield County, Montana6
- New mammalian local faunas from the first ca. 80 ka of the Paleocene in northeastern Montana and a revised model of biotic recovery from the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction4
- Early mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek area, Montana, USA4
- The beginning of the Age of Mammals4
- A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: geologic setting, Multituberculata, and Peradectia3
- Gradual dinosaur extinction and simultaneous ungulate radiation in the Hell Creek Formation2
- A new earliest Paleocene (Puercan) arctocyonid mammal from the Fort Union Formation, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, and its phylogenetic position among early condylarths1
- Variability of Dental Morphology and the Relationships of the Earliest Arctocyonid Species1
- The Wounded Knee local fauna and mammalian evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Saskatchewan, Canada1
Each of the 61 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. 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 content0
No picture of Mimatuta 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 Mimatuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mimatuta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itArctocyonidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van Valen 1978