Apterodon macrognathus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApterodonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Apterodon macrognathus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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 Apterodon macrognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apterodon macrognathus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Apterodon macrognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Megalohyrax eocaenus2 sites
- Nabotherium aegyptiacum2 sites
- Pterodon africanus2 sites
- Aegyptopithecus zeuxis1 site
- Afrotarsius chatrathi1 site
- Andrewsemys libyca1 site
- Apidium phiomense1 site
- Arsinoitherium zitteli1 site
- Barytherium grave1 site
- Bothriogenys fraasi1 site
- Bothriogenys gorringei1 site
- Bunohyrax fajumensis1 site
- Bunohyrax major1 site
- Crinifer1 site
- Crocodylus megarhinus1 site
- Dacquemys paleomorpha1 site
- Eogavialis gavialoides1 site
- Eremopezus eocaenus1 site
- Geniohyus diphycus1 site
- Geniohyus mirus1 site
- Gigantochersina ammon1 site
- Goliathia andrewsi1 site
- Halitheriinae1 site
- Hyaenodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Apterodon macrognathus, 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
3 references- Deciduous dentition and dental eruption of Hyainailouroidea (Hyaenodonta, “Creodonta,” Placentalia, Mammalia)1
- New carnivorous mammals from the Fayûm Oligocene, Egypt1
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt1
Each of the 3 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
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Apterodon macrognathus · fmnh:pm:57147
No picture of Apterodon macrognathus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Apterodon macrognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itApterodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Andrews 1904)