Copelemur

Copelemur is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in North America during the early Eocene.

No picture of Copelemur was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Copelemur, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NotharctinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEocene — about 23 of 23 occurrencesEocene56–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–51 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 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56.5 Mya45.4 Mya

23 occurrences of Copelemur on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

23 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

5 formations

Wasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 110.75°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.76°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°W

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

Copelemur and its relatives

Eocene

Where Copelemur and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Copelemur, 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

13 references

Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is 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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Copelemur australotutus · University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM):Vertebrate:44251

No picture of Copelemur was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Copelemur, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNotharctinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gingerich and Simons 1977