Eoconodon

Eoconodon is an extinct genus of triisodontid that existed during the early Paleocene of North America. Characteristics of the genus include massive jaws, blunt builds, and strong canine teeth.

Eoconodon

mark byzewski · CC BY 2.0 · 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
TriisodontidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Triisodontidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 2.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPaleocene — about 31 of 31 occurrencesPaleocene66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence66.5 Mya62.9 Mya

31 occurrences of Eoconodon 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

31 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

7 formations

Fort Union — 47.10°N, 104.80°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.50°N, 106.37°WNacimiento — 36.31°N, 108.00°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WTullock — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°W

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The named rock units Eoconodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eoconodon and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Eoconodon and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Eoconodon, 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

10 references

Each of the 31 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 content2

Picture of Eoconodon

Credit
mark byzewski
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Eoconodon sp. · dmnh:epv:130976

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 itTriisodontidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1921