Mimotricentes tedfordi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MimotricentesPBDB
- 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 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Mimotricentes tedfordi 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
5 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 Mimotricentes tedfordi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mimotricentes tedfordi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Mimotricentes tedfordi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Phenacodus bisonensis3 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Dissacus2 sites
- Nannodectes lynasi2 sites
- Neoplagiaulax2 sites
- Promioclaenus walshi2 sites
- Ptilodus2 sites
- <Weil eucosmodontid>1 site
- Acmeodon1 site
- Anconodon cochranensis1 site
- Anconodon gidleyi1 site
- Arctocyon corrugatus1 site
- Bisonalveus browni1 site
- Chriacus pelvidens1 site
- Colpoclaenus keeferi1 site
- Conacodontinae1 site
- Ectocion collinus1 site
- Ectypodus1 site
- Elphidotarsius russelli1 site
- Elpidophorus elegans1 site
- Emydidae1 site
- Gingerichia geoteretes1 site
- Goleroconus alfi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mimotricentes tedfordi, 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
2 references- New Records of Eutherian Mammals from the Goler Formation (Tiffanian, Paleocene) of California and Their Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications3
- Mimotricentes tedfordi, a new arctocyonid from the late Paleocene of California2
Each of the 5 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 content1
Picture of Mimotricentes tedfordi
- 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 of Mimotricentes tedfordi 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 itMimotricentes through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McKenna and Lofgren 2003