Nannodectes lynasi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NannodectesPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
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.
6 occurrences of Nannodectes lynasi 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 Nannodectes lynasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nannodectes lynasi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Nannodectes lynasi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Mimotricentes tedfordi2 sites
- Phenacodus bisonensis2 sites
- Plesiadapis anceps2 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis1 site
- Conacodontinae1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Dissacus1 site
- Emydidae1 site
- Goleroconus alfi1 site
- Ignacius frugivorus1 site
- Mesodma1 site
- Microcosmodon1 site
- Neoliotomus conventus1 site
- Neoplagiaulax1 site
- Paromomys1 site
- Paromomys depressidens1 site
- Phenacodus grangeri1 site
- Plesiadapis1 site
- Plesiadapis churchilli1 site
- Promioclaenus walshi1 site
- Ptilodus1 site
- Sinemydidae1 site
- Thryptacodon1 site
- Trionychidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Nannodectes lynasi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Nannodectes lynasi
- 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 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNannodectes through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lofgren et al. 2014