Ignacius frugivorus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IgnaciusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
30 occurrences of Ignacius frugivorus 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
30 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
10 formations
- Fort Union Formation11
- Paskapoo Formation7
- Slope Formation1
- Wasatch Formation1
- Hoback Formation1
- Black Peaks Formation · Tornillo Group1
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The named rock units Ignacius frugivorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ignacius frugivorus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Ignacius frugivorus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
338 taxa- Thryptacodon australis14 sites
- Carpodaptes hazelae12 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis11 sites
- Leptacodon tener11 sites
- Ptilodus kummae11 sites
- Neoplagiaulax10 sites
- Neoplagiaulax hunteri10 sites
- Phenacodus grangeri10 sites
- Plesiadapis churchilli10 sites
- Ectypodus powelli9 sites
- Ptilodus9 sites
- Arctocyon acrogenius8 sites
- Elpidophorus elegans8 sites
- Mesodma pygmaea8 sites
- Neoplagiaulax hazeni8 sites
- Protictis paralus8 sites
- Ectocion cedrus7 sites
- Litocherus lacunatus7 sites
- Litocherus zygeus7 sites
- Mimetodon silberlingi7 sites
- Peradectes elegans7 sites
- Plesiadapis rex7 sites
- Adunator minutus6 sites
- Ectocion collinus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Ignacius frugivorus, 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
20 references- The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming4
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals3
- The succession of Paleocene mammals in western Canada3
- Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta2
- Late Paleocene (Tiffanian) mammalian fauna of two localities in eastern Montana2
- Late Paleocene Mammals of the Tongue River Formation, Western North Dakota2
- Late Paleocene (Tiffanian) Mammalia from the Titanoides locality, Bison Basin, Wyoming: revised biostratigraphic age and paleobiogeographic implications1
- A new species of the archaic primate Zanycteris from the late Paleocene of western Colorado and the phylogenetic position of the family Picrodontidae1
- First mammals from the Paleocene Porcupine Hills Formation of southwestern Alberta, Canada1
- Paleocene primates from the Goler Formation of the Mojave Desert in California1
- Horolodectes sunae, an enigmatic mammal from the late Paleocene of Alberta, Canada1
- Late Paleocene (Tiffanian) mammalian local faunas in superposition from near Drumheller, Alberta1
Each of the 30 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. 8 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 Ignacius frugivorus
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No 3D scan of Ignacius frugivorus 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 itIgnacius through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew and Granger 1921)