Centetodon magnus
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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 least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 24.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 45.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
23 occurrences of Centetodon magnus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
- Wagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") Formation3
- Chadron Formation3
- Gering Formation3
- Cypress Hills Formation2
- Brule Formation · White River Group2
- Pomerado Formation1
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The named rock units Centetodon magnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Centetodon magnus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Centetodon magnus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
463 taxa- Domnina gradata7 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus7 sites
- Ectypodus lovei6 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax6 sites
- Nanodelphys huntii6 sites
- Eomyidae5 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius5 sites
- Oligoryctes5 sites
- Palaeolagus hypsodus5 sites
- Palaeolagus philoi5 sites
- Soricidae5 sites
- Ankylodon4 sites
- Brontotheriidae4 sites
- Carnivora4 sites
- Domnina4 sites
- Eumys elegans4 sites
- Geringia mcgregori4 sites
- Herpetotherium innominatum4 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti4 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium4 sites
- Ischyromyidae4 sites
- Ischyromys4 sites
- Leptictidae4 sites
- Leptotomus guildayi4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Centetodon magnus, 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
16 references- Evolutionary relationships of middle Eocene and younger species of Centetodon (Mammalia, Insectivora, Geolabididae) with a description of the dentition of Ankylodon (Adapisoricidae)4
- Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the eastern portion of the Wildcat Ridge, western Nebraska3
- The Brooksville 2 local fauna (Arikareean, latest Oligocene) Hernando County, Florida2
- Eocene-Oligocene faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan2
- Eocene and Oligocene mammals from the Gravelly Range of Southwest Montana1
- Additions to the Chadronian Mammalian Fauna, Florissant Formation, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado1
- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- A new Mio-Pliocene marine bone-bed from north-central Chile1
- Pearson and Hoganson, 19951
- Mammalian paleontology and geology of the Yoder Member, Chadron Formation, east-central Wyoming1
- Dental evolution and radiation of Eocene and early Oligocene Eomyidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) of North America, with new material from the Duchesnean of 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Centetodon magnus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Centetodon magnus 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 itCentetodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1936)