Chiromyoides

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiadapidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
Time the record covers
At least 4.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 60.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 63.4 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
37 occurrences of Chiromyoides 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
37 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
8 formations
- Fort Union Formation16
- Black Peaks Formation · Tornillo Group2
- DeBeque Formation2
- Suffolk Pebble Beds Formation2
- Wasatch Formation1
- Hoback Formation1
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The named rock units Chiromyoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chiromyoides and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Chiromyoides and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
377 taxa- Ectocion osbornianus8 sites
- Ignacius frugivorus8 sites
- Thryptacodon australis8 sites
- Dillerlemur pagei7 sites
- Ectypodus powelli7 sites
- Phenacodus grangeri7 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius7 sites
- Plesiadapis fodinatus7 sites
- Adunator minutus6 sites
- Plesiadapis churchilli6 sites
- Ptilodus kummae6 sites
- Arctocyon acrogenius5 sites
- Carpolestes nigridens5 sites
- Ectocion mediotuber5 sites
- Lambertocyon eximius5 sites
- Palaeosinopa5 sites
- Plesiadapis dubius5 sites
- Apheliscus nitidus4 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis4 sites
- Chriacus4 sites
- Didymictis proteus4 sites
- Nannodectes gidleyi4 sites
- Neoliotomus conventus4 sites
- Phenacodaptes sabulosus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Chiromyoides, 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
14 references- The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming10
- Systematics and paleobiology of Chiromyoides (Mammalia, Plesiadapidae) from the upper Paleocene of western North America and western Europe8
- First record of the Palaeocene primate Chiromyoides from North America4
- Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates) from the Late Paleocene Fort Union Formation of the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado2
- Mesozoic and Tertiary Fossil Mammals and Birds of Great Britain2
- Mammalian paleontology of the Fort Union Formation (Paleocene), eastern Rock Springs Uplift, Sweetwater County, Wyoming2
- New North American Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates) and a biostratigraphic zonation of the middle and upper Paleocene2
- Plesiadapid mammals from the latest Paleocene of France offer new insights on the evolution of Plesiadapis during the Paleocene-Eocene transition1
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary1
- Paleocene mammals and faunal analysis of the Chappo Type Locality (Tiffanian), Green River Basin, Wyoming1
- Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado1
Each of the 37 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. 2 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 Chiromyoides
- 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 Chiromyoides was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlesiadapidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stehlin 1916