Palaeotherium castrense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Palaeotherium
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Palaeotherium
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Palaeotherium
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Palaeotherium castrense 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
8 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Palaeotherium castrense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeotherium castrense and its relatives
EoceneWhere Palaeotherium castrense and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
274 taxa- Eurohippus parvulus5 sites
- Hyrachyus4 sites
- Pachynolophus4 sites
- Palaeotherium ruetimeyeri4 sites
- Plagiolophus4 sites
- Cebochoerus ruetimeyeri3 sites
- Dichobune robertiana3 sites
- Haplobunodon solodurense3 sites
- Leptotheridium traguloides3 sites
- Metanchilophus depereti3 sites
- Palaeotherium eocaenum3 sites
- Pseudamphimeryx schlosseri3 sites
- Anchilophus (Paranchilophus) jeanteti2 sites
- Aniliidae2 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus2 sites
- Archaeonycteris2 sites
- Blanus2 sites
- Catodontherium2 sites
- Catodontherium buxgovianum2 sites
- Cebochoerus robiacensis2 sites
- Chasmotherium depereti2 sites
- Dacrytherium elegans2 sites
- Dichodon cartieri2 sites
- Enigmatosaurus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Palaeotherium castrense, 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- Les mammiferes d'Egerkingen et l'histoire des faunes de l'Eocene d'Europe3
- Les gisements de Robiac (Eocène supérieur) et leurs faunes de Mammifères2
- Les Périssodactyles (Mammalia) du gisement Bartonien supérieur de Robiac (Éocène moyen du Gard, Sud de la France)1
- First fossil primates from Eckfeld Maar, Middle Eocene (Eifel, Germany)1
- Une faune du niveau d'Egerkingen (MP 14; Bartonien inférieur) dans les phosphorites du Quercy (Sud de la France)1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Palaeotherium castrense was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Palaeotherium castrense itself, so it was not used.
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 Palaeotherium castrense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeotherium castrense 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPalaeotherium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Noulet 1863