Altanius orlovi

Demberelyin Dashzeveg and Malcolm C. McKenna. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- AltaniusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- 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.
2 occurrences of Altanius orlovi 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Altanius orlovi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Altanius orlovi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Altanius orlovi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Bumbanius rarus2 sites
- Gomphos elkema2 sites
- Hyopsodus2 sites
- Naranius infrequens2 sites
- Oedolius perexiguus2 sites
- Rhombomylus turpanensis2 sites
- Sharomys parvus2 sites
- Sharomys singularis2 sites
- Tsaganius ambiguus2 sites
- Adolomys ameristus1 site
- Alagomys inopinatus1 site
- Arfia langebadreae1 site
- Bagalestes trofimovi1 site
- Bumbalavis anatoides1 site
- Bumbanomys edestus1 site
- Decipomys mongoliensis1 site
- Dissacus zanabazari1 site
- Edzenius lus1 site
- Eomylus1 site
- Eosoricodon terrigena1 site
- Esesempomys centralasiae1 site
- Euboromys grandis1 site
- Eulipotyphla1 site
- Galliformes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Altanius orlovi, 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
2 references- The earliest rodents (Rodentia, Ctenodactyloidea) of Central Asia1
- Tarsioid primate from the Early Tertiary of the Mongolian People’s Republic1
Each of the 2 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 content2

Picture of Altanius orlovi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Demberelyin Dashzeveg and Malcolm C. McKenna.
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Altanius orlovi · pss:7/20-8
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAltanius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dashzeveg and McKenna 1977