Elphidotarsius russelli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElphidotarsiusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Elphidotarsius russelli 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
5 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 Elphidotarsius russelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elphidotarsius russelli and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Elphidotarsius russelli and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Neoplagiaulax3 sites
- Anconodon cochranensis2 sites
- Anconodon gidleyi2 sites
- Arctocyon corrugatus2 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis2 sites
- Bisonalveus browni2 sites
- Carpodaptes hazelae2 sites
- Chriacus pelvidens2 sites
- Colpoclaenus keeferi2 sites
- Ectocion collinus2 sites
- Ectypodus2 sites
- Elpidophorus elegans2 sites
- Gingerichia geoteretes2 sites
- Leptacodon munusculum2 sites
- Litomylus dissentaneus2 sites
- Mesodma pygmaea2 sites
- Myrmecoboides montanensis2 sites
- Nannodectes intermedius2 sites
- Neoplagiaulax donaldorum2 sites
- Neoplagiaulax hunteri2 sites
- Paleotomus senior2 sites
- Pentacodontidae2 sites
- Picrodus silberlingi2 sites
- Plesiadapis praecursor2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Elphidotarsius russelli, 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
4 references- New specimens of Elphidotarsius russelli (Mammalia, ?Primates, Carpolestidae) and a revision of plesiadapoid relationships2
- The succession of Paleocene mammals in western Canada1
- The biogeographic origins of late Paleocene - early Eocene mammalian immigrants to the Western Interior of North America1
- Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Elphidotarsius russelli 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 Elphidotarsius russelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elphidotarsius russelli 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.
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What may have been alongside itElphidotarsius through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krause 1978