Palaeoryctidae

Palaeoryctidae is an extinct family of non-specialized eutherian mammals from extinct order Palaeoryctida, that lived in North America, Europe and Asia from the late Cretaceous to the middle Eocene.

Palaeoryctidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProteutheriaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 106 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 71 of 106 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 30 of 106 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 106 occurrencesOligocene85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 18 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 29 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 13 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 8 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 8 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya37.71 Mya85 Mya26 Mya

106 occurrences of Palaeoryctidae 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

106 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

35 formations

Fort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 46.70°N, 101.80°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 51.50°N, 112.30°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.60°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.80°N, 109.10°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WRavenscrag — 49.70°N, 110.10°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.75°WJbel Guersif — 31.61°N, 5.66°WNaran Bulak — 44.62°N, 106.18°ENaran Bulak — 43.47°N, 100.37°EFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSlope — 46.70°N, 101.80°WBullion Creek — 47.03°N, 103.65°WSantibañez del Val — 41.98°N, 3.52°WAit Ouarhitane — 31.51°N, 5.61°WAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°ETullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WBear — 46.20°N, 109.90°WCoalspur — 53.00°N, 116.80°WHoback — 42.70°N, 110.10°WMelville — 45.80°N, 109.80°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°W

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The named rock units Palaeoryctidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeoryctidae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Palaeoryctidae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,419 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Palaeoryctidae, 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

57 references

Each of the 106 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. 45 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 content3

Picture of Palaeoryctidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
?Palaeoryctidae indet. · uwbm:vp:103638

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Winge 1917