Palaeictops

Palaeictops

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptictidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Leptictidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Leptictidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 73 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 73 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 67 of 73 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 10 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 10 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 10 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63.4 Mya39.7 Mya66.6 Mya36.4 Mya

73 occurrences of Palaeictops 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

73 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

16 formations

Willwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.39°N, 108.71°WWillwood — 44.39°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.79°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.89°N, 108.91°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WTepee Trail — 43.20°N, 108.20°WTepee Trail — 43.54°N, 109.61°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WUinta — 40.09°N, 109.75°W

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The named rock units Palaeictops 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.

Palaeictops and its relatives

Eocene

Where Palaeictops and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

766 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Palaeictops, 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

30 references

Each of the 73 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. 18 further references are 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 Palaeictops

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeictops 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1899