Procerberus grandis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProcerberusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Cimolestidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Cimolestidae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Procerberus grandis 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Procerberus grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Procerberus grandis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Procerberus grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Allognathosuchus2 sites
- Alticonus gazini2 sites
- Baenidae2 sites
- Baioconodon denverensis2 sites
- Baioconodon nordicus2 sites
- Catopsalis alexanderi2 sites
- Cimexomys minor2 sites
- Crocodylidae2 sites
- Kimbetohia mziae2 sites
- Lepisosteidae2 sites
- Mesodma ambigua2 sites
- Mimatuta minuial2 sites
- Oxyprimus galadrielae2 sites
- Periptychidae2 sites
- Procerberus andesiticus2 sites
- Procerberus formicarum2 sites
- Protungulatum donnae2 sites
- Stygimys gratus2 sites
- Teleostei2 sites
- Thylacodon pusillus2 sites
- Trionychidae2 sites
- Acanthomorphata1 site
- Ampliconus browni1 site
- Anguidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Procerberus grandis, 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
3 references- Procerberus (Cimolestidae, Mammalia) from the Latest Cretaceous and Earliest Paleocene of the Northern Western Interior, US3
- Early Paleocene vertebrates of the Denver Basin, Colorado2
- Early mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek area, Montana, USA1
Each of the 6 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 content1
Picture of Procerberus grandis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Procerberus grandis 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 itProcerberus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Middleton and Dewar 2004