Paleotomus junior
No picture of Paleotomus junior 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 Paleotomus junior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaleotomusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Cimolestidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Cimolestidae
Time the record covers
At most 5.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paleotomus junior 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Paleotomus junior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paleotomus junior and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Paleotomus junior and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Acheronodon2 sites
- Anconodon cochranensis2 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis2 sites
- Ectypodus szalayi2 sites
- Jepsenella praepropera2 sites
- Leptacodon munusculum2 sites
- Leptacodon tener2 sites
- Mesodma pygmaea2 sites
- Mimetodon silberlingi2 sites
- Neoplagiaulacidae2 sites
- Neoplagiaulax2 sites
- Neoplagiaulax hunteri2 sites
- Palaeoryctidae2 sites
- Parectypodus2 sites
- Parectypodus sylviae2 sites
- Prodiacodon furor2 sites
- Ptilodus gnomus2 sites
- Acreodi1 site
- Albanerpeton1 site
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Anconodon1 site
- Anconodon gidleyi1 site
- Arctocyon corrugatus1 site
- Baiotomeus rhothonion1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paleotomus junior, 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- Late Torrejonian (middle Paleocene) mammals from south central Alberta, Canada1
- New earliest Tiffanian (late Paleocene) mammals from Cochrane 2, southwestern Alberta, Canada1
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
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No picture of Paleotomus junior 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 Paleotomus junior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paleotomus junior 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPaleotomus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott et al. 2002