Plagioctenodon thewisseni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlagioctenodonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 57.5 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Plagioctenodon thewisseni 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Plagioctenodon thewisseni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plagioctenodon thewisseni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Plagioctenodon thewisseni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Carpolestes simpsoni3 sites
- Didymictis proteus3 sites
- Azygonyx ancylion2 sites
- Coryphodon2 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus2 sites
- Labidolemur kayi2 sites
- Peradectes protinnominatus2 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius2 sites
- Plagioctenodon rosei2 sites
- Plastomenus2 sites
- Plesiadapis cookei2 sites
- Viverravus laytoni2 sites
- Acidomomys hebeticus1 site
- Adunator minutus1 site
- Albertanella minuta1 site
- Allognathosuchus wartheni1 site
- Anguimorpha1 site
- Anura1 site
- Borealosuchus formidabilis1 site
- Boysia phenacodorum1 site
- Calcardea junnei1 site
- Ceutholestes dolosus1 site
- Cyriacotherium psamminum1 site
- Dillerlemur pagei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plagioctenodon thewisseni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Plagioctenodon thewisseni 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 Plagioctenodon thewisseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plagioctenodon thewisseni 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPlagioctenodon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Manz and Bloch 2015