Plesiadapis cookei

Plesiadapis cookei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlesiadapisPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea

Time the record covers

At most 1.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 57.5 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 32 of 32 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences58 Mya55.5 Mya

32 occurrences of Plesiadapis cookei 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

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

4 formations

Fort Union — 44.50°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.75°N, 109.04°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 108.20°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°W

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The named rock units Plesiadapis cookei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plesiadapis cookei and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Plesiadapis cookei and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Plesiadapis cookei, 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

9 references

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. 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 content2

Picture of Plesiadapis cookei

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Plesiadapis cookei · CM:VertPaleo:79232

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPlesiadapis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jepsen 1930