Paromomyidae

Paromomyidae is an extinct family of "plesiadapiform" mammals which lived during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. They were the most widespread and long-lasting family of plesiadapiforms, ranging through North America as far south as New Mexico and as far north as the Canadian Arctic. One paromomyid, Arcius, inhabited parts of Europe, and undescribed fossils have also been found in China.

Paromomyidae

Nobu Tamura Email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com http://spinops.blogspot.com/ https://paleoexhibit.blogspot.com/ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PrimatesPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 354 occurrencesPaleocene — about 160 of 354 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 194 of 354 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 354 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 12 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 12 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 20 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 23 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 23 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 41 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 43 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 39 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 39 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 39 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 38 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61.66 Mya37 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

354 occurrences of Paromomyidae 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

354 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

40 formations

Willwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.89°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.74°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.85°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.64°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 108.07°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.87°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.80°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFort Union — 45.10°N, 106.90°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 44.96°N, 109.01°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 108.97°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.89°WFort Union — 44.81°N, 108.83°WFort Union — 41.68°N, 107.52°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 51.90°N, 113.30°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.70°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 51.50°N, 112.30°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.60°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WPaskapoo — 51.05°N, 114.15°WPaskapoo — 51.11°N, 114.55°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 110.75°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WPorcupine Hills — 51.10°N, 114.28°WPorcupine Hills — 51.22°N, 114.49°WPorcupine Hills — 51.03°N, 114.09°WPorcupine Hills — 51.10°N, 114.22°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WLignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.15°N, 3.92°EGoler — 35.50°N, 117.77°WGoler — 35.55°N, 117.83°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WMargaret — 78.50°N, 82.00°WMargaret — 78.67°N, 81.90°WHoback — 42.70°N, 110.10°WRavenscrag — 49.70°N, 110.10°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WBullion Creek — 47.03°N, 103.65°W"Fort Union No. 3" (= Melville) — 45.80°N, 109.80°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WHannold Hill — 29.42°N, 103.14°WVaugirard — 48.81°N, 2.24°EWutu — 36.52°N, 118.92°ECoalspur — 53.00°N, 116.80°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°W

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The named rock units Paromomyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paromomyidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paromomyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,434 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 279 sites for Paromomyidae, 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

71 references

Each of the 354 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. 59 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 Paromomyidae

Credit
Nobu Tamura Email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com http://spinops.blogspot.com/ https://paleoexhibit.blogspot.com/
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paromomyidae 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Simpson 1940)