Paleotomus

Paleotomus

Fox, M. · CC0 · 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
CimolestidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Cimolestidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Cimolestidae

Time the record covers

At least 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 60.9 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 63.4 Mya to 56 Mya.

Paleocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60.9 Mya59.24 Mya63.9 Mya55.5 Mya

20 occurrences of Paleotomus 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

20 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

8 formations

Fort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 103.90°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 44.71°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 41.68°N, 107.52°WHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WMelville — 45.80°N, 109.80°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WSlope — 46.70°N, 101.80°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WHoback — 42.70°N, 110.10°W

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The named rock units Paleotomus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paleotomus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Paleotomus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Paleotomus, 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

14 references

Each of the 20 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. 2 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 Paleotomus

Credit
Fox, M.
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paleotomus 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 itCimolestidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van Valen 1967