Cimolodon nitidus

Cimolodon nitidus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CimolodonPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Cimolodontidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Ptilodontoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 77 of 77 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 77 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 7 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 7 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 7 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 7 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 7 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

77 occurrences of Cimolodon nitidus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

77 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

Lance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.65°WLance — 44.94°N, 108.85°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.52°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.65°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.25°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.23°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 45.98°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.76°N, 104.92°WHell Creek — 46.45°N, 104.02°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.10°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.20°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WScollard — 51.80°N, 113.00°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.90°WWahweap — 37.56°N, 112.28°WSt. Mary River — 49.80°N, 114.60°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WFox Hills — 44.50°N, 102.30°WWilliams Fork — 40.03°N, 108.85°W

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The named rock units Cimolodon nitidus 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.

Cimolodon nitidus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cimolodon nitidus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

401 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Cimolodon nitidus, 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

24 references

Each of the 77 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. 12 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 Cimolodon nitidus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1889