Palaechthon torrejonius
No picture of Palaechthon torrejonius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaechthon torrejonius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaechthonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, omnivorePBDB, for Plesiadapiformes
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Plesiadapiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Plesiadapiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 60.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Palaechthon torrejonius 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
2 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 Palaechthon torrejonius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaechthon torrejonius and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Palaechthon torrejonius and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Anisonchus sectorius2 sites
- Chriacus pelvidens2 sites
- Conoryctella pattersoni2 sites
- Coriphagus encinensis2 sites
- Deltatherium fundaminis2 sites
- Goniacodon levisanus2 sites
- Mioclaenus turgidus2 sites
- Mixodectes malaris2 sites
- Periptychus carinidens2 sites
- Promioclaenus acolytus2 sites
- Promioclaenus lemuroides2 sites
- Protoselene opisthacus2 sites
- Psittacotherium multifragum2 sites
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis2 sites
- Tricentes subtrigonus2 sites
- Acmeodon secans1 site
- Anconodon gidleyi1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Arctocyonidae1 site
- Bryanictis paulus1 site
- Catopsalis fissidens1 site
- Chriacus baldwini1 site
- Deuterogonodon noletil1 site
- Diacodon puercensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Palaechthon torrejonius, 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
2 references- The origin of the plesiadapid primates and the nature of Purgatorius1
- Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Palaechthon torrejonius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaechthon torrejonius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaechthon torrejonius 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 itPalaechthon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kay and Cartmill 1977)