Cantius frugivorus

Cantius frugivorus is a species of adapiform primate that lived in North America during the early Eocene.

Cantius frugivorus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CantiusPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 56 occurrencesEocene — about 56 of 56 occurrencesEocene56–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56.5 Mya47.6 Mya

56 occurrences of Cantius frugivorus 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

56 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

6 formations

DeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 42.72°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.78°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 110.75°WWasatch — 41.85°N, 110.75°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.74°WWillwood — 44.41°N, 108.79°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WGolden Valley — 46.90°N, 102.80°W

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

Cantius frugivorus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cantius frugivorus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

233 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Cantius frugivorus, 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

11 references

Each of the 56 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 Cantius frugivorus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Cantius frugivorus · University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM):Vertebrate:41186

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itCantius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1875)