Centetodon aztecus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CentetodonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 37 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Centetodon aztecus 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
23 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
3 formations
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group17
- Sespe Formation4
- Cypress Hills Formation2
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The named rock units Centetodon aztecus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Centetodon aztecus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Centetodon aztecus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Herpetotherium knighti19 sites
- Uintasorex montezumicus16 sites
- Metanoiamys agorus15 sites
- Sciuravus powayensis15 sites
- Microparamys minutus14 sites
- Patriolestes novaceki14 sites
- Crypholestes vaughni13 sites
- Aethomylos simplicidens10 sites
- Batodonoides powayensis10 sites
- Washakius woodringi10 sites
- Pareumys grangeri9 sites
- Peradectes9 sites
- Peradectes californicus9 sites
- Nyctitherium8 sites
- Omomyidae8 sites
- Glyptosaurinae7 sites
- Omomys carteri7 sites
- Chiroptera6 sites
- Tinosaurus stenodon6 sites
- Palaeoxantusia allisoni5 sites
- Apatemys bellus4 sites
- Griphomys alecer4 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum4 sites
- Odaxosaurus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Centetodon aztecus, 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
7 references- Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County9
- Evolutionary relationships of middle Eocene and younger species of Centetodon (Mammalia, Insectivora, Geolabididae) with a description of the dentition of Ankylodon (Adapisoricidae)6
- Additional Uintan and Duchesnean (Middle and Late Eocene) mammals from the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California3
- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California2
- Preliminary Report on a Paleontologic Investigation of the Lower and Middle Members, Sespe Formation, Simi Valley Landfill, Ventura County, California1
- Dental evolution and radiation of Eocene and early Oligocene Eomyidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) of North America, with new material from the Duchesnean of Saskatchewan1
- Mammals of the Swift Current Creek Local Fauna (Eocene: Uintan), Saskatchewan1
Each of the 23 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
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No picture of Centetodon aztecus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Centetodon aztecus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCentetodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lillegraven et al. 1981