Orthaspidotherium edwardsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthaspidotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 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 Orthaspidotherium edwardsi 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
3 occurrencesThese 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 Orthaspidotherium edwardsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Orthaspidotherium edwardsi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Orthaspidotherium edwardsi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Plesiadapis tricuspidens3 sites
- Arctocyonides arenae2 sites
- Berrulestes pellouini2 sites
- Berrulestes phelizoni2 sites
- Dipavali petri2 sites
- Gigarton meyeri2 sites
- Louisina marci2 sites
- Plesiadapis remensis2 sites
- Pleuraspidotherium aumonieri2 sites
- Sarnacius gingerichi2 sites
- Teilhardimys brisswalteri2 sites
- Walbeckodon girardi2 sites
- Adapisorex gaudryi1 site
- Adapisoriculus minimus1 site
- Afrodon1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Arctocyon primaevus1 site
- Arctocyonides trouessarti1 site
- Arfia gingerichi1 site
- Asiatosuchus depressifrons1 site
- Berruchelus russelli1 site
- Berrulestes poirieri1 site
- Berruornis orbisantiqui1 site
- Berruvius lasseroni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Orthaspidotherium edwardsi, 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
3 references- A new late Paleocene micromammal fauna from Montchenot (Paris Basin). Preliminary results1
- First skull of Orthaspidotherium edwardsi (Mammalia, "Condylarthra") from the late Paleocene of Berru (France) and phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic European family Pleuraspidotheriidae1
- A new species of Platychoerops (Plesiadapiformes, Mammalia) from the latest Palaeocene of the Paris, London and Belgian Basins1
Each 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 Orthaspidotherium edwardsi 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 Orthaspidotherium edwardsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthaspidotherium edwardsi 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 itOrthaspidotherium through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lemoine 1885