Lophiodontidae

Lophiodontidae is a family of browsing, herbivorous, mammals in the Perissodactyla suborder Ancylopoda. They lived in Southern Europe during the Eocene epoch. Previously thought to be related to tapirs, it is now thought that they were most likely related to early chalicotheres, although they are distinct from that group.

Lophiodontidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChalicotherioideaPBDB
Diet
folivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 131 occurrencesEocene — about 131 of 131 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 131 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 8 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 8 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 8 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 8 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 8 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 8 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 9 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51.1 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

131 occurrences of Lophiodontidae 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

131 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

16 formations

Castrais — 43.71°N, 2.14°ECastrais — 43.62°N, 2.09°ECastrais — 43.02°N, 0.18°ECastrais — 43.58°N, 2.18°ECorrales — 41.37°N, 5.75°WCorrales — 41.37°N, 5.72°WSables du Castrais — 43.37°N, 1.99°ESables du Castrais — 43.78°N, 2.19°EEntrala — 41.40°N, 5.67°WEntrala — 41.67°N, 4.05°WIrdin Manha — 42.00°N, 112.00°EShara Murum — 42.04°N, 111.53°EBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°ESaint-Papoul — 43.33°N, 2.04°ESilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°ECorca — 42.02°N, 0.70°EGrès d'Assignan — 43.33°N, 2.62°EMazaterón — 41.53°N, 2.12°WBarton Clay — 50.79°N, 1.20°WMolasse de Carcassonne — 43.34°N, 2.03°EWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°W

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The named rock units Lophiodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 97 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophiodontidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lophiodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

703 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Lophiodontidae, 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

32 references

Each of the 131 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. 20 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 Lophiodontidae

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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1872