Cantius nunienus
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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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Cantius nunienus 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Cantius nunienus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cantius nunienus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cantius nunienus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
295 taxa- Heptodon calciculus12 sites
- Lambdotherium popoagicum12 sites
- Hyopsodus11 sites
- Hyopsodus wortmani11 sites
- Meniscotherium chamense11 sites
- Hyracotherium vasacciense10 sites
- Microsyops scottianus10 sites
- Paramys copei10 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani10 sites
- Absarokius abbotti9 sites
- Diacodexis9 sites
- Didymictis altidens9 sites
- Vulpavus canavus9 sites
- Diacodexis secans8 sites
- Miacis8 sites
- Paramys excavatus8 sites
- Perissodactyla8 sites
- Phenacolemurinae8 sites
- Bunophorus7 sites
- Coryphodon7 sites
- Esthonyx acutidens7 sites
- Heptodon posticus7 sites
- Prototomus7 sites
- Vulpavus australis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Cantius nunienus, 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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals16
- Early Eocene fossil vertebrates from the southwestern Green River Basin, Lincoln and Uinta counties, Wyoming4
- Basin margins, biodiversity, evolutionary innovation, and the origin of new taxa2
- Evolution of molar enamel microstructure in North American Notharctidae (primates)1
- Geological investigations of the Vermillion Creek coal bed in the Eocene Niland Tongue of the Wasatch Formation, Sweetwater County, Wyoming1
- Geology and mammalian paleontology of the New Fork-Big Sandy area, Sublette County, Wyoming1
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 Cantius nunienus
- 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 Cantius nunienus 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 itCantius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1881)