Ptilodontidae

Ptilodontidae is a family of primitive mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene of North America.

Ptilodontidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtilodontoideaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB
Life habit
arborealPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 57.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 11 of 170 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 159 of 170 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 170 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 10 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 18 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 18 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 21 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 23 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 24 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 21 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 8 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences72.2 Mya57.5 Mya84.2 Mya55.4 Mya

170 occurrences of Ptilodontidae 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

170 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

27 formations

Fort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 46.05°N, 104.48°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 104.40°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.80°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 103.90°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.68°N, 108.32°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 44.89°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFort Union — 45.10°N, 106.90°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 44.50°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.74°WFort Union — 44.81°N, 108.83°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 51.90°N, 113.30°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WPaskapoo — 52.40°N, 113.80°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 52.00°N, 114.30°WPaskapoo — 52.23°N, 113.63°WPaskapoo — 51.50°N, 112.30°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WPaskapoo — 51.05°N, 114.15°WLance — 43.14°N, 104.58°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.57°WPorcupine Hills — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPorcupine Hills — 51.10°N, 114.28°WPorcupine Hills — 51.21°N, 114.04°WPorcupine Hills — 51.10°N, 114.22°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WRavenscrag — 49.70°N, 110.10°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WBlack Peaks — 29.42°N, 103.10°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.27°N, 107.76°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 45.80°N, 109.80°WHoback — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WSentinel Butte — 47.20°N, 101.90°WSentinel Butte — 47.50°N, 101.20°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WCoalspur — 53.00°N, 116.80°WEvanston — 41.58°N, 110.68°WEvanston — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBullion Creek — 47.03°N, 103.65°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.27°N, 108.18°WKirtland — 36.30°N, 108.20°WScollard — 51.80°N, 113.00°WDenver — 39.70°N, 104.70°WGoler — 35.50°N, 117.77°WSlope — 46.70°N, 101.80°W

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The named rock units Ptilodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptilodontidae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Ptilodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

824 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Ptilodontidae, 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

59 references

Each of the 170 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. 47 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 Ptilodontidae

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ptilodontidae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Cope 1887