Promioclaenus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyopsodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Hyopsodontidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 60.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 57.5 Mya.
70 occurrences of Promioclaenus 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
70 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
13 formations
- Nacimiento Formation22
- Fort Union Formation19
- North Horn Formation4
- Porcupine Hills Formation4
- Hanna Formation3
- "Fort Union" (= Lebo) Formation3
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The named rock units Promioclaenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Promioclaenus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Promioclaenus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
343 taxa- Tricentes subtrigonus24 sites
- Anisonchus sectorius22 sites
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis22 sites
- Periptychus carinidens17 sites
- Acmeodon secans15 sites
- Protictis haydenianus15 sites
- Aphronorus fraudator13 sites
- Chriacus baldwini12 sites
- Litomylus dissentaneus12 sites
- Protoselene opisthacus12 sites
- Psittacotherium multifragum12 sites
- Arctocyon ferox11 sites
- Bryanictis microlestes11 sites
- Chriacus pelvidens11 sites
- Goniacodon levisanus11 sites
- Haplaletes disceptatrix11 sites
- Mioclaenus turgidus11 sites
- Ptilodus11 sites
- Anconodon cochranensis10 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis9 sites
- Litaletes disjunctus9 sites
- Mixodectes malaris9 sites
- Deltatherium fundaminis7 sites
- Diacodon puercensis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Promioclaenus, 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
21 references- Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico13
- Paleontology and biostratigraphy of lower part of Polecat Bench Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming10
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals9
- A new middle Paleocene (early Tiffanian) mammalian fauna from the Overland Member of the Fort Union Formation, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A.5
- The Kutz Canyon Local Fauna, Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico;4
- First mammals from the Paleocene Porcupine Hills Formation of southwestern Alberta, Canada3
- Paleocene mammalian biostratigraphy of the Carbon Basin, southeastern Wyoming, and age constraints on local phases of tectonism3
- Paleocene (Puercan-Torrejonian) mammalian faunas of the North Horn Formation, central Utah3
- Miocene Formations and Vertebrate Biostratigraphic Units, Texas Coastal Plain3
- New Records of Eutherian Mammals from the Goler Formation (Tiffanian, Paleocene) of California and Their Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications2
- A New Late Paleocene Vertebrate Fauna from the Ohio Creek Formation of Western Colorado2
- A new occurrence of Paleocene mammals in the Evanston Formation, southwestern Wyoming2
Each of the 70 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. 9 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 content1
Picture of Promioclaenus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Promioclaenus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itHyopsodontidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Trouessart 1904