Mimetodon

No picture of Mimetodon was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Mimetodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeoplagiaulacidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Neoplagiaulacidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Ptilodontoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 60.9 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 63.4 Mya to 56 Mya.

Paleocene — about 19 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60.9 Mya59.24 Mya63.9 Mya55.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Mimetodon 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

19 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

7 formations

Fort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WPaskapoo — 52.40°N, 113.80°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.60°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WBlack Peaks — 29.42°N, 103.10°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WCoalspur — 53.00°N, 116.80°WNacimiento — 36.27°N, 107.76°WSentinel Butte — 47.20°N, 101.90°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°W

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The named rock units Mimetodon 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.

Mimetodon and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Mimetodon and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

379 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Mimetodon, 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

13 references

Each of the 19 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. 1 further reference is 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 content0

No picture of Mimetodon was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Mimetodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itNeoplagiaulacidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jepsen 1940