Chiromyoides potior
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChiromyoidesPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Chiromyoides potior 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Chiromyoides potior 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.
Chiromyoides potior and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Chiromyoides potior and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Aaptoryctes ivyi1 site
- Acritoparamys atavus1 site
- Adunator minutus1 site
- Amia basiloides1 site
- Aphronorus1 site
- Arctocyonidae1 site
- Carpodaptes hobackensis1 site
- Carpolestes nigridens1 site
- Chamops segnis1 site
- Condylarthra1 site
- Didymictis proteus1 site
- Dillerlemur pagei1 site
- Dissacus1 site
- Dorraletes diminutivus1 site
- Ectoganus lobdelli1 site
- Ectypodus powelli1 site
- Eutheria1 site
- Haplomylus palustris1 site
- Ignacius frugivorus1 site
- Labidolemur kayi1 site
- Leipsanolestes siegfriedti1 site
- Microsyopidae1 site
- Opisthotriton1 site
- Palaeosinopa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chiromyoides potior, 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
3 references- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary1
- Revised and Amended Fossil Vertebrate Faunal Lists, Early Tertiary, Hoback Basin, Wyoming1
- New North American Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates) and a biostratigraphic zonation of the middle and upper Paleocene1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Chiromyoides potior
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Chiromyoides potior · YPM:VP:YPM VPPU 019125
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChiromyoides through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gingerich 1975