Desmatoclaenus dianae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DesmatoclaenusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Arctocyonidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Arctocyonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Desmatoclaenus dianae 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Desmatoclaenus dianae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Desmatoclaenus dianae and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Desmatoclaenus dianae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Desmatoclaenus protogonioides2 sites
- Loxolophus hyattianus2 sites
- Mithrandir gillianus2 sites
- Periptychus coarctatus2 sites
- Choeroclaenus turgidunculus1 site
- Conacodon kohlbergeri1 site
- Dissacus navajovius1 site
- Ectoconus ditrigonus1 site
- Eoconodon coryphaeus1 site
- Eoconodon gaudrianus1 site
- Haploconus entoconus1 site
- Hemithlaeus kowalevskianus1 site
- Loxolophus kimbetovius1 site
- Loxolophus pentacus1 site
- Loxolophus priscus1 site
- Oxyclaenus cuspidatus1 site
- Oxyclaenus simplex1 site
- Taeniolabis taoensis1 site
- Wortmania otariidens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Desmatoclaenus dianae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The beginning of the age of mammals in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico; biostratigraphy and evolution of Paleocene mammals of the Nacimiento Formation1
- Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Desmatoclaenus dianae 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 Desmatoclaenus dianae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Desmatoclaenus dianae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDesmatoclaenus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van Valen 1978