Paschatherium

Paschatherium is a small extinct mammal of the Perissodactyla order, with an insectivore-like dentition. Its morphology indicates an arboreal form, adapted climbing and running on trees. Paschatherium must have been extremely numerous in the latest Paleocene and earliest Eocene of Europe, since it makes up the majority of all mammal fossils in some fossil sites.

Paschatherium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PerissodactylaPBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB, for Perissodactyla
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Perissodactyla
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Paleocene — about 10 of 25 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 15 of 25 occurrencesEocene60–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya48.07 Mya59.7 Mya40.5 Mya

25 occurrences of Paschatherium 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

25 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

9 formations

Tienen — 50.33°N, 4.28°ETienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°ELignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°EJibou — 47.26°N, 23.26°ECalcaire de Ventenac — 43.08°N, 2.50°ESilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WJbel Tagount — 31.42°N, 6.31°WConglomérat de Cernay — 49.27°N, 4.10°ESuffolk Pebble Beds — 52.09°N, 1.32°ENavarri — 42.27°N, 0.78°E

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The named rock units Paschatherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paschatherium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paschatherium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

279 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Paschatherium, 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

13 references

Each of the 25 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. 1 further reference is 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 Paschatherium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Paschatherium 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Russell 1963