Paleotomus carbonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaleotomusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Cimolestidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Cimolestidae
Time the record covers
At most 5.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paleotomus carbonensis 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
3 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 Paleotomus carbonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paleotomus carbonensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Paleotomus carbonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Anconodon1 site
- Arctocyon ferox1 site
- Gelastops joni1 site
- Haplaletes disceptatrix1 site
- Mimotricentes1 site
- Neoplagiaulax1 site
- Palaechthon alticuspis1 site
- Parectypodus sylviae1 site
- Plesiadapidae1 site
- Plesiolestes1 site
- Promioclaenus acolytus1 site
- Promioclaenus lemuroides1 site
- Protoselene1 site
- Ptilodus1 site
- Ptilodus mediaevus1 site
- Thryptacodon1 site
- Tricentes subtrigonus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paleotomus carbonensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paleotomus carbonensis 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 Paleotomus carbonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paleotomus carbonensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPaleotomus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Secord 1998