Pantodonta

Pantodonta is an extinct order of eutherian mammals. These herbivorous mammals were one of the first groups of large mammals to evolve after the end of the Cretaceous. The last pantodonts died out at the end of the Eocene.

Pantodonta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
pantodontPBDB
Sits inside
CimolestaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 756 occurrencesPaleocene — about 268 of 756 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 488 of 756 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 756 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 8 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 9 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 19 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 20 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 33 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 34 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 34 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 66 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 86 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 100 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 100 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 100 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 97 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 9 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 9 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63.4 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

756 occurrences of Pantodonta 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

756 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

76 formations

Willwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.81°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.72°WWillwood — 44.68°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.57°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.41°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.33°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.35°N, 108.75°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.27°N, 108.18°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WFort Union — 44.50°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 46.59°N, 101.74°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.68°N, 108.32°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 45.10°N, 106.90°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 44.73°N, 108.47°WFort Union — 44.90°N, 108.90°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.78°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.01°WFort Union — 44.96°N, 109.01°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.74°WFort Union — 41.68°N, 107.52°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WWasatch — 43.25°N, 110.42°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.20°N, 110.50°WWasatch — 40.00°N, 107.90°WWasatch — 42.24°N, 110.19°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.78°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 110.75°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 41.80°N, 107.00°WPaskapoo — 52.30°N, 113.80°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 52.00°N, 114.30°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.60°WPaskapoo — 52.40°N, 116.10°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WPaskapoo — 52.40°N, 113.80°WPaskapoo — 51.90°N, 113.30°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.18°N, 107.58°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 36.27°N, 107.76°WNongshan — 25.12°N, 114.30°ENongshan — 25.15°N, 114.40°ENongshan — 25.29°N, 114.50°ENongshan — 25.08°N, 114.17°ENongshan — 25.37°N, 114.52°E"Wasatch" — 40.20°N, 109.90°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°W"Wasatch" — 43.90°N, 105.70°WArshanto — 43.65°N, 111.98°EArshanto — 43.33°N, 111.76°EArshanto — 40.00°N, 111.00°EArshanto — 43.15°N, 111.58°EArshanto — 43.13°N, 111.59°EZaoshi — 26.70°N, 113.50°EWanghudun — 30.76°N, 116.55°EWanghudun — 30.68°N, 116.62°EShanghu — 25.12°N, 114.30°EShanghu — 25.08°N, 114.17°EChijiang — 25.44°N, 114.31°EChijiang — 25.50°N, 114.50°EHannold Hill — 29.20°N, 103.20°WHannold Hill — 29.42°N, 103.14°WHannold Hill — 29.40°N, 103.18°W"Fort Union No. 3" (= Melville) — 46.20°N, 109.90°W"Fort Union No. 3" (= Melville) — 45.80°N, 109.80°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WNaran Bulak — 43.47°N, 100.38°ENaran Bulak — 43.45°N, 101.44°ENaran Bulak — 43.46°N, 101.48°EYuhuangding — 32.57°N, 111.48°EYuhuangding — 33.25°N, 111.45°EHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WHanna — 42.02°N, 106.45°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WBlack Peaks — 29.46°N, 103.15°WSentinel Butte — 47.70°N, 103.40°WSentinel Butte — 47.50°N, 101.20°WSentinel Butte — 48.40°N, 103.50°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°W

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The named rock units Pantodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 73 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pantodonta and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pantodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

809 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 665 sites for Pantodonta, and this reads 240 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

158 references

Each of the 756 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. 146 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 Pantodonta

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No 3D scan of Pantodonta 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCimolesta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1873)