Leptictidium prouti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptictidiumPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Leptictidium prouti 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Leptictidium prouti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptictidium prouti and its relatives
EoceneWhere Leptictidium prouti and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Ailuravinae2 sites
- Ectypodus childei2 sites
- Fordonia lawsoni2 sites
- Hyopsodus wardi2 sites
- Leptictidae2 sites
- Macrocranion2 sites
- Meldimys2 sites
- Palaeonictis gigantea2 sites
- Pantolestidae2 sites
- Pseudoparamys2 sites
- Acipenser1 site
- Acirsa1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Ailuravus mitchelli1 site
- Amphilemuridae1 site
- Amphiperatherium1 site
- Apatemys prouti1 site
- Arcius hookeri1 site
- Arctocyonides jefferyi1 site
- Barnea1 site
- Bayania1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Cantius eppsi1 site
- Chiromyoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Leptictidium prouti, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Leptictidium prouti was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Leptictidium prouti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptictidium prouti 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLeptictidium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hooker 2013