Geolabididae

Geolabididae is an extinct family of prehistoric mammals belonging to the order Eulipotyphla.

Centetodon magnus (Clark, 1936), a relative of Geolabididae — not Geolabididae itself

Not Geolabididae. This is Centetodon magnus (Clark, 1936), a relative — both are Geolabididae.

M. Hough · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
SoricomorphaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 60.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 63.4 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 3 of 221 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 181 of 221 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 34 of 221 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 221 occurrencesMiocene64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 7 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 8 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 14 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 15 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 15 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 18 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 19 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 19 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 19 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 9 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 13 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 13 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 13 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60.9 Mya18.5 Mya64.3 Mya15.4 Mya

221 occurrences of Geolabididae 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

221 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

36 formations

Bridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 46.40°N, 103.30°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WRenova — 45.00°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WStadium — 32.78°N, 117.15°WStadium — 32.80°N, 117.12°WMission Valley — 32.90°N, 117.10°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WPomerado — 32.92°N, 117.07°WPomerado — 32.85°N, 117.03°WClimbing Arrow — 46.00°N, 112.00°WClimbing Arrow — 45.93°N, 111.62°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.60°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°W

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The named rock units Geolabididae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Geolabididae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Geolabididae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,447 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 177 sites for Geolabididae, 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

60 references

Each of the 221 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. 48 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 Centetodon magnus (Clark, 1936)

Source
GBIF
Credit
M. Hough
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Geolabididae 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 itSoricomorpha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McKenna 1960)