Onychodectes tisonensis

Onychodectes tisonensis

Osborn, H. D. and C. Earle · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OnychodectesPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Onychodectes
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Taeniodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 2.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66.5 Mya62.9 Mya

6 occurrences of Onychodectes tisonensis 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

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

3 formations

Nacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.31°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.80°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°W

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The named rock units Onychodectes tisonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Onychodectes tisonensis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Onychodectes tisonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Onychodectes tisonensis, 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

5 references

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Onychodectes tisonensis

Credit
Osborn, H. D. and C. Earle
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itOnychodectes through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1888