Litomylus orthronepius
No picture of Litomylus orthronepius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Litomylus orthronepius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LitomylusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Macroscelidea
- 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.
2 occurrences of Litomylus orthronepius 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Litomylus orthronepius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Litomylus orthronepius and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Litomylus orthronepius and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Baioconodon denverensis2 sites
- Carcinodon aquilonius2 sites
- Ectypodus2 sites
- Mesodma formosa2 sites
- Neoplagiaulax kremnus2 sites
- Parectypodus2 sites
- Procerberus2 sites
- Stygimys camptorhiza2 sites
- Anisonchus1 site
- Anisonchus oligistus1 site
- Anura1 site
- Bubogonia saskia1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Catopsalis1 site
- Catopsalis waddleae1 site
- Cimexomys1 site
- Cimexomys minor1 site
- Cimolestes1 site
- Cimolestes incisus1 site
- Didelphidae1 site
- Eoconodon1 site
- Hyopsodontidae1 site
- Litaletes1 site
- Loxolophus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Litomylus orthronepius, 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
2 references- The succession of Paleocene mammals in western Canada1
- Paleontology, stratigraphy, and sedimentology of Simpson Quarry (early Paleocene), Crazy Mountains Basin, south-central Montana1
Each of the 2 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 content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- cf. Litomylus orthronepius sp. · uwbm:vp:98257
No picture of Litomylus orthronepius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Litomylus orthronepius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itLitomylus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnston and Fox 1984