Copelemur praetutus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CopelemurPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Copelemur praetutus 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
5 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Copelemur praetutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Copelemur praetutus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Copelemur praetutus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Haplomylus speirianus3 sites
- Hyopsodus3 sites
- Hyracotherium3 sites
- Cantius frugivorus2 sites
- Diacodexis2 sites
- Didymictis2 sites
- Hyopsodus loomisi2 sites
- Meniscotherium tapiacitum2 sites
- Microsyops angustidens2 sites
- Paramys excavatus2 sites
- Prodiacodon tauricinerei2 sites
- Absarokius gazini1 site
- Acritoparamys atwateri1 site
- Amaramnis gregoryi1 site
- Apatemys1 site
- Apheliscus1 site
- Arenahippus pernix1 site
- Chriacus1 site
- Copecion brachypternus1 site
- Coryphodon1 site
- Coryphodon radians1 site
- Didelphidae1 site
- Equidae1 site
- Erinaceidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Copelemur praetutus, 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
5 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Evolution of molar enamel microstructure in North American Notharctidae (primates)1
- New notharctine primate fossils from the early Eocene of New Mexico and southern Wyoming and the phylogeny of Notharctinae1
- Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado1
- Early Eocene mammalian faunas and their environment in the vicinity of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming1
Each of the 5 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 Copelemur praetutus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Copelemur praetutus 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.
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What may have been alongside itCopelemur through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gazin 1962)