Caenolambda jepseni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaenolambdaPBDB
- 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 4.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 60.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 63.4 Mya to 51.1 Mya.
5 occurrences of Caenolambda jepseni 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
5 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
4 formations
- Fort Union Formation2
- Black Peaks Formation1
- Las Tetas de Cabra Formation1
- Hannold Hill Formation · Tornillo Group1
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The named rock units Caenolambda jepseni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caenolambda jepseni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Caenolambda jepseni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Phenacodus grangeri2 sites
- Titanoides gidleyi2 sites
- Adunator meizon1 site
- Aletodon quadravus1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Aphanocyon amaurus1 site
- Arctocyon acrogenius1 site
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis1 site
- Bisonalveus holtzmani1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Bottosaurus fustidens1 site
- Carpodaptes hazelae1 site
- Caudata1 site
- Cedrobaena putorius1 site
- Cedrocherus ryani1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Champsosaurus1 site
- Chenopodiaceae1 site
- Chiromyoides1 site
- Chriacus baldwini1 site
- Chriacus oconostotae1 site
- Colpoclaenus keeferi1 site
- Diacodexis gracilis1 site
- Dissacus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Caenolambda jepseni, 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- Fossil mammals and the Paleocene/Eocene series boundary in Europe, North America, and Asia2
- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary1
- Vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology of Paleocene Black Peaks Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas1
- The Paleocene Pantodonta1
Each of the 5 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 Caenolambda jepseni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Caenolambda jepseni 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.
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What may have been alongside itCaenolambda through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simons 1960