Conoryctes comma

Conoryctes comma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConoryctesPBDB
Diet
omnivore, herbivorePBDB, for Conoryctidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Conoryctidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Conoryctidae

Time the record covers

At most 2.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 60.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene63–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63.9 Mya60.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Conoryctes comma 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

4 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

1 formation

Nacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.18°N, 107.58°W

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

Conoryctes comma and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Conoryctes comma and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Conoryctes comma, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Conoryctes comma

Credit
nobody named on the record
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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What may have been alongside itConoryctes through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1881