Catopsalis

Catopsalis is a genus of extinct mammal from the Paleocene of North America. This animal was a relatively large member of the extinct order of Multituberculata. Most multituberculates were much smaller.

Catopsalis

Buckley, G.A. · 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
TaeniolabididaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Taeniolabididae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Multituberculata
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 60.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 57.5 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPaleocene — about 29 of 29 occurrencesPaleocene66–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63.4 Mya60.9 Mya66.5 Mya57 Mya

29 occurrences of Catopsalis 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

29 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

9 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.83°N, 106.18°WPorcupine Hills — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPorcupine Hills — 51.10°N, 114.28°WPorcupine Hills — 51.21°N, 114.04°WPorcupine Hills — 51.10°N, 114.22°WNacimiento — 36.31°N, 108.00°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WDenver — 39.70°N, 104.70°WTullock — 47.60°N, 107.00°WBear — 46.20°N, 109.90°W

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The named rock units Catopsalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Catopsalis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Catopsalis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

297 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Catopsalis, 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

9 references

Each of the 29 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 Catopsalis

Credit
Buckley, G.A.
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itTaeniolabididae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1882