Conoryctidae

Conoryctidae is an extinct family of mammals from extinct order Taeniodonta, that lived in North America and Europe from the early Paleocene to early Eocene.

Conoryctidae

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On record

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

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.

Paleocene — about 18 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEocene64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60.9 Mya56 Mya63.9 Mya47.6 Mya

19 occurrences of Conoryctidae 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

19 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

7 formations

Nacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 36.18°N, 107.58°WNacimiento — 36.27°N, 107.76°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 45.80°N, 109.80°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 46.20°N, 109.90°WLudlow — 46.40°N, 103.30°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°W"Fort Union No. 3" (= Melville) — 46.20°N, 109.90°WSilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°W

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The named rock units Conoryctidae 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.

Conoryctidae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Conoryctidae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

238 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Conoryctidae, 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

9 references

Each of the 19 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 Conoryctidae

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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTaeniodonta through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wortman 1896)