Picrodontidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiadapoideaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
Time the record covers
At least 760 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 60.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 57.5 Mya.
32 occurrences of Picrodontidae 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
32 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
9 formations
- Fort Union Formation12
- Paskapoo Formation8
- North Horn Formation1
- "Fort Union" (= Lebo) Formation1
- Slope Formation1
- Wasatch Formation1
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The named rock units Picrodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Picrodontidae and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Picrodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
460 taxa- Bessoecetor septentrionalis13 sites
- Ignacius frugivorus13 sites
- Ptilodus12 sites
- Mesodma pygmaea11 sites
- Neoplagiaulax11 sites
- Picrodus silberlingi11 sites
- Anconodon cochranensis9 sites
- Carpodaptes hazelae9 sites
- Leptacodon tener9 sites
- Mimetodon silberlingi9 sites
- Peradectes elegans9 sites
- Ectocion collinus8 sites
- Leptacodon munusculum8 sites
- Litomylus dissentaneus8 sites
- Neoplagiaulax hunteri8 sites
- Tricentes subtrigonus8 sites
- Anisonchus sectorius7 sites
- Elpidophorus elegans7 sites
- Neoplagiaulacidae7 sites
- Paromomys depressidens7 sites
- Promioclaenus acolytus7 sites
- Protictis haydenianus7 sites
- Arctocyon corrugatus6 sites
- Arctocyon ferox6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Picrodontidae, 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
17 references- Windows on the evolution of Picrodus (Plesiadapiformes: Primates): morphology and relationships of a species complex from the Paleocene of Alberta14
- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary3
- The oldest Cenozoic mammal fauna of Europe: implication of the Hainin reference fauna for mammalian evolution and dispersals during the Paleocene1
- A new species of the archaic primate Zanycteris from the late Paleocene of western Colorado and the phylogenetic position of the family Picrodontidae1
- The succession of Paleocene mammals in western Canada1
- The biogeographic origins of late Paleocene - early Eocene mammalian immigrants to the Western Interior of North America1
- Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta1
- Geologic setting of a new Paleocene mammal locality in the northern Powder River basin, Montana1
- A New Genus of Picrodontid Primate from the Paleocene of Utah1
- Mammalian paleontology of the Fort Union Formation (Paleocene), eastern Rock Springs Uplift, Sweetwater County, Wyoming1
- Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance, Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming1
- Swain Quarry of the Fort Union Formation, Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian), Carbon County, Wyoming: geologic setting and mammalian fauna1
Each of the 32 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. 5 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
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GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Picrodontidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPlesiadapoidea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1937