Paritatodon
Paritatodon is an extinct mammaliaform which existed in Kyrgyzstan and England during the Jurassic period. It was originally the holotype specimen of Shuotherium kermacki, but Martin and Averianov (2010) argued that it resembled the genus Itatodon (Docodonta) and so renamed it Paritatodon.
No picture of Paritatodon 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 Paritatodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TegotheriidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paritatodon on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
- Balabansai Formation1
- Forest Marble Formation · Great Oolite Group1
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The named rock units Paritatodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paritatodon and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Paritatodon and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Actinopterygii1 site
- Allotheria1 site
- Amioidea1 site
- Amphilestidae1 site
- Amphitheria1 site
- Amphitheriidae1 site
- Amphitherium1 site
- Anguimorpha1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Anoualerpeton priscus1 site
- Asteracanthus1 site
- Balnealacerta silvestris1 site
- Bellairsia gracilis1 site
- Borealestes mussetti1 site
- Borealestes serendipitus1 site
- Caudata1 site
- Cetiosaurus1 site
- Charophyta1 site
- Chengyuchelys latimarginalis1 site
- Cryptodira1 site
- Cteniogenys1 site
- Cyrtlatherium canei1 site
- Docodonta1 site
- Dryolestidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paritatodon, 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
2 references- Mammals from the Middle Jurassic Balabansai Formation of the Fergana Depression, Kyrgyzstan1
- Discovery of a Late Jurassic Chinese mammal in the Upper Bathonian of England1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Paritatodon 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 Paritatodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paritatodon 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Paritatodon”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTegotheriidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martin and Averianov 2010