Palaeanodon

Palaeanodon

W. D. Matthew · 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
MetacheiromyidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 57.5 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 5 of 74 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 69 of 74 occurrencesEocene58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 6 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 6 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 6 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 6 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58 Mya45.4 Mya

74 occurrences of Palaeanodon 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

74 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

6 formations

Willwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.80°N, 109.10°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.61°N, 108.59°WWillwood — 44.62°N, 108.50°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.87°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.75°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 44.15°N, 107.86°WGolden Valley — 46.90°N, 102.80°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°E

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The named rock units Palaeanodon 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.

Palaeanodon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Palaeanodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

473 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Palaeanodon, 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

13 references

Each of the 74 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Palaeanodon

Credit
W. D. Matthew
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeanodon 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 itMetacheiromyidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1918