Ellipsodon grangeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EllipsodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Hyopsodontidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 60.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Ellipsodon grangeri 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
9 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ellipsodon grangeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ellipsodon grangeri and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Ellipsodon grangeri and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Periptychus carinidens7 sites
- Anisonchus sectorius5 sites
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis5 sites
- Tricentes subtrigonus5 sites
- Coriphagus encinensis4 sites
- Mioclaenus turgidus4 sites
- Promioclaenus acolytus4 sites
- Promioclaenus lemuroides4 sites
- Chriacus pelvidens3 sites
- Crocodylia3 sites
- Deltatherium fundaminis3 sites
- Protictis haydenianus3 sites
- Protoselene opisthacus3 sites
- Psittacotherium multifragum3 sites
- Chriacus baldwini2 sites
- Conoryctella pattersoni2 sites
- Goniacodon levisanus2 sites
- Krauseia clemensi2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Mioclaenus2 sites
- Mixodectes malaris2 sites
- Pantolambda cavirictus2 sites
- Pentacodon inversus2 sites
- Plesiolestes nacimienti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ellipsodon grangeri, 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
6 references- Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico4
- Bomburia and Ellipsodon (Mammalia: Mioclaenidae) from the Early Paleocene of New Mexico1
- 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 (Puercan-Torrejonian) mammalian faunas of the North Horn Formation, central Utah1
- The Kutz Canyon Local Fauna, Torrejonian (Middle Paleocene) of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico;1
- The condylarth genus Ellipsodon1
Each of the 9 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 Ellipsodon grangeri 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 Ellipsodon grangeri, 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 itEllipsodon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1956