Bemalambda

Bemalambda is a genus of extinct mammal, belonging to the pantodonts. It lived in the lower-middle Paleocene and the fossil remains have been found in China.

Bemalambda

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
BemalambdidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Pantodonta
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Pantodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Pantodonta

Time the record covers

At most 6.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 14 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene66–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66.5 Mya58.7 Mya

14 occurrences of Bemalambda 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

14 occurrences

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

Shanghu — 25.12°N, 114.30°EShanghu — 25.08°N, 114.17°EWanghudun — 30.76°N, 116.55°EChijiang — 25.44°N, 114.31°EChijiang — 25.50°N, 114.50°EZaoshi — 26.70°N, 113.50°E

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The named rock units Bemalambda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bemalambda and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Bemalambda and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Bemalambda, 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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 Bemalambda

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bemalambda 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBemalambdidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chow et al. 1973