Taeniolabis

Taeniolabis is a genus of extinct multituberculate mammal from the Paleocene of North America.

Taeniolabis

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/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
TaeniolabididaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Taeniolabididae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Multituberculata
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At most 2.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPaleocene — about 18 of 18 occurrencesPaleocene66–66 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66.5 Mya62.9 Mya

18 occurrences of Taeniolabis 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

18 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

8 formations

Denver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.31°N, 108.00°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WLudlow — 46.30°N, 104.50°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.86°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°W

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

Taeniolabis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Taeniolabis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Taeniolabis, 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

9 references

Each of the 18 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 content3

Picture of Taeniolabis

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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Taeniolabis taoensis · UCMP:V:98083

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1882