Oodectes

Oodectes is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.

Oodectes

J. L. Wortman · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
CarnivoramorphaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 15 of 15 occurrencesEocene56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56.5 Mya45.4 Mya

15 occurrences of Oodectes on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

15 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

Willwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWashakie — 41.29°N, 108.47°W

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

Oodectes and its relatives

Eocene

Where Oodectes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

348 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Oodectes, 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

9 references

Each of the 15 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 content2

Picture of Oodectes

Credit
J. L. Wortman
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Oodectes sp · AMNH:FM:14008

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCarnivoramorpha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wortman 1901