Neoliotomus conventus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeoliotomusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Ptilodontoidea
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Ptilodontoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Neoliotomus conventus 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
14 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Neoliotomus conventus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neoliotomus conventus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Neoliotomus conventus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Ectocion osbornianus6 sites
- Dillerlemur pagei5 sites
- Ectypodus powelli5 sites
- Plesiadapis dubius5 sites
- Adunator minutus4 sites
- Apheliscus nitidus4 sites
- Carpolestes nigridens4 sites
- Ectypodus laytoni4 sites
- Phenacodus grangeri4 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani4 sites
- Probathyopsis harrisorum4 sites
- Arctodontomys simplicidens3 sites
- Chiromyoides major3 sites
- Chriacus3 sites
- Didymictis dellensis3 sites
- Plesiadapis cookei3 sites
- Princetonia yalensis3 sites
- Thryptacodon pseudarctos3 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Azygonyx xenicus2 sites
- Barylambda faberi2 sites
- Carpolestes dubius2 sites
- Carpolestes simpsoni2 sites
- Dissacus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Neoliotomus conventus, 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
7 references- The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming4
- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary3
- Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado2
- Multituberculates from the Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age, Late Paleocene-Early Eocene, of Western North America2
- Additions to the latest Paleocene Buckman Hollow local fauna, Chappo Member of the Wasatch Formation, Lincoln County, southwestern Wyoming1
- Portrait of a late Paleocene (early Clarkforkian) terrestrial ecosystem; Big Multi Quarry and associated strata, Washakie Basin, southwestern Wyoming1
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis (Mammalia: Phenacodontidae), Goler Formation, Paleocene of California, and distribution of the genus1
Each of the 14 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 Neoliotomus conventus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neoliotomus conventus 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.
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What may have been alongside itNeoliotomus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jepsen 1930