Embrithopoda

Embrithopoda is an order of extinct paenungulate mammals known from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Most of the embrithopod genera are known exclusively from jaws and teeth dated from the late Paleocene to the late Eocene; however, the order is best known from its terminal member, the large Arsinoitherium.

Embrithopoda

Aram Dulyan ( User:Aramgutang ) · 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
TethytheriaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesEocene — about 23 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48.07 Mya27.3 Mya56.7 Mya22.4 Mya

37 occurrences of Embrithopoda 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

37 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

17 formations

Ashawq — 17.06°N, 54.42°EAshawq — 17.00°N, 54.00°EJebel Qatrani — 29.50°N, 30.50°EJebel Qatrani — 29.64°N, 30.58°EAshawaq — 17.00°N, 53.00°ECemalettin — 41.53°N, 34.79°EBaraklı — 39.48°N, 34.37°ELumeiyi — 24.76°N, 103.33°EUzunçarşıdere — 40.08°N, 32.73°ELushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EIdam Unit — 25.71°N, 18.18°EAydim — 16.68°N, 53.15°EKartal — 40.09°N, 32.71°EÇeltek — 40.93°N, 35.81°EShumaysi — 21.68°N, 39.75°EErageleit — 3.36°N, 35.80°EHedi — 35.12°N, 111.85°EMalembo — 5.34°S, 12.18°ECouche I — 32.72°N, 6.78°E

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The named rock units Embrithopoda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Embrithopoda and its relatives

Eocene

Where Embrithopoda and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

355 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Embrithopoda, 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

26 references

Each of the 37 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. 14 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 Embrithopoda

Credit
Aram Dulyan ( User:Aramgutang )
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Embrithopoda was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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What may have been alongside itTethytheria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.