Ptilodontoidea

Ptilodontoidea

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 978 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 335 of 978 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 539 of 978 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 104 of 978 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 978 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 18 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 20 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 20 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 20 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 20 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 78 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 90 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 102 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 127 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 144 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 178 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 61 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 41 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 25 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences93.9 Mya37 Mya108 Mya32 Mya

978 occurrences of Ptilodontoidea 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

978 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

81 formations

Fort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.80°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.05°N, 104.48°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 104.40°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 103.90°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 110.50°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 — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 41.66°N, 107.80°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.74°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.96°WFort Union — 44.81°N, 108.83°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 106.20°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.25°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.10°N, 104.80°WHell Creek — 45.40°N, 105.60°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.23°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.83°N, 106.18°WHell Creek — 45.98°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.70°N, 106.58°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 104.50°WHell Creek — 45.76°N, 104.92°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 46.45°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.65°WLance — 44.94°N, 108.85°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.52°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.65°WLance — 44.24°N, 109.02°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 — 52.20°N, 113.70°WPaskapoo — 51.10°N, 114.50°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°WWillwood — 44.78°N, 108.97°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.77°N, 109.08°WWillwood — 44.54°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.58°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WRavenscrag — 49.60°N, 108.70°WRavenscrag — 49.70°N, 110.10°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WRavenscrag — 49.30°N, 108.42°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.24°N, 110.19°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.90°WWahweap — 37.60°N, 111.35°WWahweap — 37.56°N, 112.28°WWahweap — 37.63°N, 112.12°WJudith River — 46.42°N, 109.27°WJudith River — 46.46°N, 109.41°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 48.57°N, 109.70°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.58°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 36.27°N, 107.76°WScollard — 52.33°N, 113.12°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WScollard — 51.80°N, 113.00°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WBlack Peaks — 29.42°N, 103.10°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.10°WFrenchman — 49.40°N, 107.40°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.20°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°WOldman — 50.78°N, 110.50°WOldman — 50.90°N, 111.80°WOldman — 49.14°N, 110.85°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WKaiparowits — 37.40°N, 111.20°WKaiparowits — 37.80°N, 111.50°WDenver — 39.70°N, 104.70°WDenver — 38.80°N, 104.80°WDenver — 39.50°N, 104.70°WHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 46.20°N, 109.90°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 45.80°N, 109.80°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WTullock — 47.60°N, 107.00°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WCoalspur — 53.00°N, 116.80°W

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The named rock units Ptilodontoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 80 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptilodontoidea and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Ptilodontoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 460 sites for Ptilodontoidea, and this reads 240 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

186 references

Each of the 978 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. 174 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 Ptilodontoidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ptilodontoidea 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 itCimolodonta through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sloan and Van Valen 1965)