Diacodexeidae

Diacodexeidae is an extinct family of basal artiodactyl mammals from the Eocene of North America, Europe, and Asia. The family includes some of the earliest known artiodactyls, such as Diacodexis. They were small animals with short snouts, and closely related to the dichobunids, with which they were formerly classified.

Diacodexeidae

Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArtiodactylaPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 645 occurrencesEocene — about 645 of 645 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 17 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 75 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 75 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 75 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 75 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 75 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 75 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 75 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 35 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 8 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 8 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 8 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51.1 Mya41.03 Mya56.5 Mya37.2 Mya

645 occurrences of Diacodexeidae 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

645 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

35 formations

Willwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.77°N, 109.08°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.72°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.57°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.83°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.41°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.33°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.35°N, 108.75°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWillwood — 44.08°N, 108.22°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WWind River — 43.13°N, 104.07°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 110.75°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.75°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WLignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.15°N, 3.92°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°EHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WSantiago — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WKuldana — 33.62°N, 71.92°EKuldana — 33.25°N, 71.15°EKuldana — 33.30°N, 71.26°EMami Khel — 33.25°N, 71.14°EMami Khel — 33.12°N, 71.10°EMami Khel — 33.33°N, 71.28°ECambay Shale — 21.33°N, 72.98°EFarisita — 37.80°N, 105.10°WMission Valley — 32.90°N, 117.10°WTienen — 50.33°N, 4.28°ETienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°ESubathu — 33.22°N, 74.40°ESubathu — 32.50°N, 75.50°EAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°ESuffolk Pebble Beds — 52.10°N, 1.32°ELas Tetas de Cabra — 28.68°N, 114.08°WPass Peak — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGolden Valley — 46.90°N, 102.80°WIndian Meadows — 43.20°N, 108.20°W

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The named rock units Diacodexeidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diacodexeidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Diacodexeidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

797 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 465 sites for Diacodexeidae, and this reads 240 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

63 references

Each of the 645 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. 51 further references are 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

Picture of Diacodexeidae

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Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krishtalka and Stucky 1985