Ectoganus

Ectoganus is an extinct genus of taeniodonts from tribe Ectoganini within subfamily Stylinodontinae and family Stylinodontidae, that lived in North America from the Late Paleocene to Early Eocene.

Ectoganus

R. Bruce Horsfall · Public Domain · 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
StylinodontidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Stylinodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Stylinodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Stylinodontidae

Time the record covers

At least 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Paleocene — about 37 of 77 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 40 of 77 occurrencesEocene61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 5 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 8 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 8 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 7 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57.5 Mya – 56 Mya61.4 Mya47.6 Mya

77 occurrences of Ectoganus on record. 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

77 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

10 formations

Willwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.54°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.61°N, 108.45°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.74°WWillwood — 44.58°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 44.67°N, 108.45°WFort Union — 44.19°N, 107.86°WFort Union — 44.51°N, 108.88°WFort Union — 44.05°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 109.12°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.01°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.94°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.27°N, 108.18°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.75°WWilliamsburg — 33.43°N, 80.10°WWilliamsburg — 33.43°N, 79.93°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WAquia — 38.44°N, 77.26°WGalisteo — 35.50°N, 106.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°W

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The named rock units Ectoganus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

438 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Ectoganus, 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

20 references

Each of the 77 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. 8 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 content2

Picture of Ectoganus

Credit
R. Bruce Horsfall
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Cope 1874