Colpodon

Searched as Colpodon sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Colpodon as the accepted name.

No picture of Colpodon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colpodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeontiniidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 429 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 17 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 17 occurrences466–451 Mya — about 7 occurrences451–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–7.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences449.6 Mya20.45 Mya466 Mya7 Mya

17 occurrences of Colpodon on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

17 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

8 formations

Sarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°WChichinales — 39.13°S, 67.75°WCura-Mallín — 37.50°S, 71.27°W

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The named rock units Colpodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Colpodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Colpodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Colpodon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 17 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

Media content0

No picture of Colpodon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colpodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Colpodon was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLeontiniidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burmeister 1885