Dichodon cuspidatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DichodonPBDB
- Diet
- folivorePBDB, for Dichodon
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dichodon
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Dichodon
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dichodon cuspidatus 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Dichodon cuspidatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dichodon cuspidatus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dichodon cuspidatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Emys2 sites
- Hyaenodon minor2 sites
- Microchoerus erinaceus2 sites
- Palaeotherium2 sites
- Palaeotherium muehlbergi2 sites
- Teleostei2 sites
- Adapis parisiensis1 site
- Adelomys1 site
- Allaeochelys delheidi1 site
- Alligator hantoniensis1 site
- Ancylus1 site
- Argillotherium toliapicum1 site
- Arvaldus stintoni1 site
- Aves1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chara1 site
- Cuvierichelys crassa1 site
- Cyrena1 site
- Dichobune1 site
- Diplocynodon1 site
- Diplocynodon hantoniensis1 site
- Divalinga1 site
- Dreissena1 site
- Engelhardti sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dichodon cuspidatus, 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- Mesozoic and Tertiary Fossil Mammals and Birds of Great Britain1
- Marsupialia, Insectivora, Primates, Creodonta and Carnivora from the Headon Beds (upper Eocene) of southern England1
- On the fossil remains of Mammalia referable to the genus Palaeotherium, and to two genera, Paloplotherium and Dichodon, hitherto undefined: from the Eocene Sand at Hordle, Hampshire1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Dichodon cuspidatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dichodon cuspidatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itDichodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1847