Prodiacodon

Prodiacodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptictidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Leptictidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Leptictidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 51.1 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 91 occurrencesPaleocene — about 43 of 91 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 48 of 91 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63.4 Mya56 Mya66.5 Mya50.6 Mya

91 occurrences of Prodiacodon on record. 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

91 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

12 formations

Fort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.58°N, 107.05°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 109.12°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 41.68°N, 107.52°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WTullock — 47.60°N, 107.00°WSentinel Butte — 47.20°N, 101.90°WMargaret — 78.50°N, 82.00°WGolden Valley — 46.90°N, 102.80°W

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The named rock units Prodiacodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

808 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Prodiacodon, 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

30 references

Each of the 91 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. 18 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

Media content2

Picture of Prodiacodon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Prodiacodon Prodiacodon cf. P. crustulum · uwbm:vp:103624

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1929