Baioconodon denverensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BaioconodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Arctocyonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Arctocyonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
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.
6 occurrences of Baioconodon denverensis 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
6 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Baioconodon denverensis 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.
Baioconodon denverensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Baioconodon denverensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Procerberus4 sites
- Allognathosuchus3 sites
- Baenidae3 sites
- Cimolestes3 sites
- Ectypodus3 sites
- Lepisosteidae3 sites
- Mesodma formosa3 sites
- Parectypodus3 sites
- Alticonus gazini2 sites
- Arctocyonidae2 sites
- Carcinodon aquilonius2 sites
- Catopsalis2 sites
- Cimexomys minor2 sites
- Crocodylidae2 sites
- Litomylus orthronepius2 sites
- Loxolophus schizophrenus2 sites
- Mesodma2 sites
- Mesodma thompsoni2 sites
- Neoplagiaulacidae2 sites
- Neoplagiaulax kremnus2 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi2 sites
- Oxyclaenus2 sites
- Procerberus andesiticus2 sites
- Procerberus grandis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Baioconodon denverensis, 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
4 references- The succession of Paleocene mammals in western Canada2
- Early Paleocene vertebrates of the Denver Basin, Colorado2
- A new important record of earliest Cenozoic mammalian history: geologic setting, Multituberculata, and Peradectia1
- Paleontology, stratigraphy, and sedimentology of Simpson Quarry (early Paleocene), Crazy Mountains Basin, south-central Montana1
Each of the 6 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 Baioconodon denverensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Baioconodon denverensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
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What may have been alongside itBaioconodon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gazin 1941