Batodonoides powayensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BatodonoidesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 37 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Batodonoides powayensis 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
25 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
5 formations
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group17
- Santiago Formation3
- Stadium Formation2
- Mission Valley Formation2
- Sespe Formation1
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The named rock units Batodonoides powayensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Batodonoides powayensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Batodonoides powayensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Crypholestes vaughni16 sites
- Sciuravus powayensis16 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti14 sites
- Uintasorex montezumicus14 sites
- Aethomylos simplicidens12 sites
- Microparamys minutus12 sites
- Patriolestes novaceki12 sites
- Peradectes12 sites
- Metanoiamys agorus11 sites
- Centetodon aztecus10 sites
- Pareumys grangeri9 sites
- Peradectes californicus9 sites
- Omomys carteri8 sites
- Washakius woodringi8 sites
- Chiroptera7 sites
- Metanoiamys6 sites
- Microparamys woodi6 sites
- Sespedectes singularis6 sites
- Uintasorex6 sites
- Apatemys bellus5 sites
- Centetodon5 sites
- Nyctitherium5 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum5 sites
- Simimys simplex5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Batodonoides powayensis, 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- Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County17
- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California6
- Middle Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County, California1
- Preliminary Report on a Paleontologic Investigation of the Lower and Middle Members, Sespe Formation, Simi Valley Landfill, Ventura County, California1
Each of the 25 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 Batodonoides powayensis
- 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 Batodonoides powayensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBatodonoides through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Novacek 1976