Prototomus deimos
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrototomusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Prototomus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Prototomus deimos on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
12 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Prototomus deimos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prototomus deimos and its relatives
EoceneWhere Prototomus deimos and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Sifrhippus grangeri8 sites
- Viverravus acutus7 sites
- Cardiolophus radinskyi6 sites
- Didymictis leptomylus6 sites
- Hyopsodus loomisi6 sites
- Apheliscus chydaeus5 sites
- Arctodontomys wilsoni5 sites
- Esthonyx spatularius5 sites
- Arfia shoshoniensis4 sites
- Copecion davisi4 sites
- Didymictis protenus4 sites
- Paramys taurus4 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani4 sites
- Prolimnocyon haematus4 sites
- Prototomus martis4 sites
- Cantius torresi3 sites
- Chriacus badgleyi3 sites
- Coryphodon3 sites
- Diacodexis ilicis3 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus3 sites
- Ectocion parvus3 sites
- Eucosmodon ultimus3 sites
- Haplomylus speirianus3 sites
- Homogalax protapirinus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Prototomus deimos, 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- Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming6
- Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming2
- Hyaenodontidae (Creodonta, Mammalia) from the Early Eocene Four Mile Fauna and their biostratigraphic implications2
- New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage2
Each of the 12 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
Media content0
No picture of Prototomus deimos was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Prototomus deimos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prototomus deimos 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPrototomus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gingerich and Deutsch 1989