Plesiadapis gingerichi
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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 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Plesiadapis gingerichi 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
10 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Plesiadapis gingerichi 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.
Plesiadapis gingerichi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Plesiadapis gingerichi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Ectocion osbornianus8 sites
- Plesiadapis dubius7 sites
- Carpolestes nigridens5 sites
- Dillerlemur pagei5 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius5 sites
- Phenacodontidae4 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani4 sites
- Probathyopsis harrisorum4 sites
- Apheliscus nitidus3 sites
- Chiromyoides major2 sites
- Chriacus2 sites
- Didymictis dellensis2 sites
- Dipsalidictis krausei2 sites
- Ectypodus powelli2 sites
- Microcosmodon rosei2 sites
- Neoliotomus conventus2 sites
- Phenacodus grangeri2 sites
- Prochetodon taxus2 sites
- Thryptacodon pseudarctos2 sites
- Adunator minutus1 site
- Aletodon gunnelli1 site
- Arctocyon nexus1 site
- Arctodontomys simplicidens1 site
- Azygonyx xenicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Plesiadapis gingerichi, 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
4 references- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary5
- The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming3
- Carpolestes simpsoni, New Species (Mammalia, Proprimates) from the Late Paleocene of the Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming1
- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary1
Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plesiadapis gingerichi 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 Plesiadapis gingerichi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plesiadapis gingerichi 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 itPlesiadapis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rose 1981