Ptilodus mediaevus

Ptilodus mediaevus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtilodusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ptilodus
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Ptilodus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At most 5.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 8 of 8 occurrencesPaleocene63–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63.9 Mya57 Mya

8 occurrences of Ptilodus mediaevus 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

8 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

5 formations

Black Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WBlack Peaks — 29.42°N, 103.10°WHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°W

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The named rock units Ptilodus mediaevus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ptilodus mediaevus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Ptilodus mediaevus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

154 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ptilodus mediaevus, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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. 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 Ptilodus mediaevus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPtilodus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1881