Pantolambda cavirictus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PantolambdaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Pantodonta
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Pantodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Pantodonta
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.
13 occurrences of Pantolambda cavirictus 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
13 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pantolambda cavirictus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pantolambda cavirictus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pantolambda cavirictus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Anisonchus sectorius8 sites
- Arctocyon ferox8 sites
- Periptychus carinidens8 sites
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis7 sites
- Mioclaenus turgidus6 sites
- Tricentes subtrigonus6 sites
- Dissacus navajovius5 sites
- Promioclaenus acolytus5 sites
- Promioclaenus lemuroides5 sites
- Protictis haydenianus5 sites
- Protoselene opisthacus5 sites
- Psittacotherium multifragum5 sites
- Chriacus pelvidens4 sites
- Mixodectes malaris4 sites
- Peradectes4 sites
- Chriacus baldwini3 sites
- Colpoclaenus procyonoides3 sites
- Conoryctes comma3 sites
- Coriphagus encinensis3 sites
- Goniacodon levisanus3 sites
- Intyrictis vanvaleni3 sites
- Mixodectes pungens3 sites
- Pantolambda bathmodon3 sites
- Torrejonia wilsoni3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pantolambda cavirictus, 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
7 references- Paleocene vertebrate paleontology of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico5
- Paleocene mammalian biostratigraphy of the Carbon Basin, southeastern Wyoming, and age constraints on local phases of tectonism2
- The beginning of the age of mammals in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico; biostratigraphy and evolution of Paleocene mammals of the Nacimiento Formation2
- Evolutionary History of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, ?Primates) and the Relationship Between Plesiadapiformes and Primates1
- Occurrence of Pantolambda (Mammalia; Pantodonta) in the Torrejonian Deltatherium "Zone", San Juan Basin, New Mexico1
- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary1
- Notes on Paleocene and Lower Eocene mammal horizons of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado1
Each of the 13 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 content3

Picture of Pantolambda cavirictus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pantolambda cavirictus · amnh:fm:2455
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPantolambda through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1883