Archaeolambda

Ghedo · 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
- PantolambdodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Pantodonta
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Pantodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Pantodonta
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
12 occurrences of Archaeolambda 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
12 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
8 formations
- Chijiang Formation2
- Doumu Formation2
- Shuangtasi Formation2
- Naran Bulak Formation1
- Khaychin Formation1
- Tujinshan Formation1
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The named rock units Archaeolambda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Archaeolambda and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Archaeolambda and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Bothriostylops progressus3 sites
- Eomylus zhigdenensis2 sites
- Harpyodus progressus2 sites
- Hsiuannania2 sites
- Hsiuannania maguensis2 sites
- Prodinoceras2 sites
- Pseudictops2 sites
- Wanotherium xuanchengensis2 sites
- Allostylops periconotus1 site
- Anhuichelys doumuensis1 site
- Anhuichelys tsienshanensis1 site
- Anhuisaurus huainanensis1 site
- Archaeolambdidae1 site
- Archaeoryctes notialis1 site
- Arctostylops1 site
- Asiostylops spanios1 site
- Bemalambda1 site
- Bogdia orientalis1 site
- Dissacus magushanensis1 site
- Eudinoceras1 site
- Eurymyloidea1 site
- Eurymylus1 site
- Ganolophus1 site
- Gomphos ellae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Archaeolambda, 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- Early Tertiary mammals of Xuancheng Basin, Anhui Province and its implication for the age of Shuangtasi Formation2
- Palaeocene and Eocene Mixodontia (Mammalia, Glires) of Mongolia and China2
- The Paleogene mammals of China2
- Gomphos ellae, a new mimotonid from the middle Eocene of Mongolia and its implications for the origin of Lagomorpha1
- Mammalian remains from the late Paleocene of Jiashan, Anhui1
- Mammalian remains from the Late Paleocene of Guichi, Anhui1
- Notes on Some Early Eocene Mammalian Fossils of Hengtung, Hunan1
- Paleocene Pantodonta of Anhui1
- Archaeolambda Fossils from Anhui1
Each of the 12 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 Archaeolambda
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Archaeolambda 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPantolambdodontidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flerov 1952