Coryphodon lobatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoryphodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Coryphodon
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, polymorphPBDB, for Coryphodon
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Coryphodon
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Coryphodon lobatus 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
18 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Coryphodon lobatus 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.
Coryphodon lobatus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Coryphodon lobatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Arenahippus pernix13 sites
- Diacodexis metsiacus13 sites
- Esthonyx bisulcatus12 sites
- Homogalax protapirinus11 sites
- Didymictis protenus10 sites
- Bunophorus etsagicus8 sites
- Testudines8 sites
- Cantius abditus7 sites
- Crocodylia7 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani7 sites
- Viverravus acutus7 sites
- Cantius trigonodus6 sites
- Cardiolophus semihians6 sites
- Coryphodon armatus6 sites
- Haplomylus scottianus6 sites
- Hyopsodus latidens6 sites
- Lacertilia6 sites
- Lepisosteus6 sites
- Palaeictops bicuspis6 sites
- Paramys taurus6 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius6 sites
- Prototomus robustus6 sites
- Vulpavus australis6 sites
- Allognathosuchus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Coryphodon lobatus, 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
3 references- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary14
- Fossil mammals and the Paleocene/Eocene series boundary in Europe, North America, and Asia2
- Evolution of Coryphodon (Mammalia, Pantodonta) in the late Paleocene and early Eocene of Northwestern Wyoming2
Each of the 18 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Coryphodon lobatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- 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 itCoryphodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1877