Caenopithecus lemuroides

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaenopithecusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Caenopithecus lemuroides 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
5 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.
Caenopithecus lemuroides and its relatives
EoceneWhere Caenopithecus lemuroides and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Heterohyus3 sites
- Adapis2 sites
- Anchomomys (Fendantia) pygmaeus2 sites
- Catodontherium buxgovianum2 sites
- Dacrytherium elegans2 sites
- Dacrytherium priscum2 sites
- Dichodon2 sites
- Dichodon simplex2 sites
- Haplobunodon solodurense2 sites
- Hyperdichobune langi2 sites
- Meniscodon europaeum2 sites
- Mixtotherium priscum2 sites
- Mouillacitherium cartieri2 sites
- Necrolemur zitteli2 sites
- Protadelomys cartieri2 sites
- Pseudamphimeryx schlosseri2 sites
- Rhagatherium kowalevskyi2 sites
- Allopterodon torvidus1 site
- Anchomomys stehlini1 site
- Antiacodon pygmaeus1 site
- Cartierodon egerkingensis1 site
- Cebochoerus1 site
- Chasselasia eldredgei1 site
- Cynohyaenodon trux1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Caenopithecus lemuroides, 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
3 references- Les mammiferes d'Egerkingen et l'histoire des faunes de l'Eocene d'Europe3
- Catalogue of the Eocene mammal types of the Natural History Museum Basel1
- Les artiodactyles de l'Eocene moyen et superieur d'Europe occidentale; systematique et evolution1
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 content2

Picture of Caenopithecus lemuroides
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Caenopithecus lemuroides · nmb:eh:728
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 itCaenopithecus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rütimeyer 1862