Pappotherium pattersoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PappotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Pappotherium
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Pappotherium pattersoni on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
7 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
- Antlers Formation · Trinity Group6
- Cloverly Formation1
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The named rock units Pappotherium pattersoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pappotherium pattersoni and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Pappotherium pattersoni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Albanerpeton arthridion3 sites
- Anura3 sites
- Astroconodon denisoni3 sites
- Holoclemensia texana3 sites
- Kermackia texana3 sites
- Lacertilia3 sites
- Lonchidion anitae3 sites
- Meristodonoides butleri3 sites
- Naomichelys3 sites
- Tenontosaurus3 sites
- Theropoda3 sites
- Amiidae2 sites
- Bernissartia2 sites
- Deinonychus antirrhopus2 sites
- Glyptops2 sites
- Goniopholididae2 sites
- Lepidotes2 sites
- Macronaria2 sites
- Oklatheridium2 sites
- Oklatheridium minax2 sites
- Oklatheridium szalayi2 sites
- Paracimexomys2 sites
- Paramacellodidae2 sites
- Prosiren elinorae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pappotherium pattersoni, 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
5 references- Reappraisal of the tribosphenidan mammals from the Trinity Group (Aptian-Albian) of Texas and Oklahoma3
- Tribosphenic mammals from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Montana and Wyoming1
- Mammals, archosaurs, and the Early to Late Cretaceous terrestrial transition in north-central Texas1
- A New Interpretation of the Mammalian Teeth of Tribosphenic Pattern from the Albian of Texas1
- A therian from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Texas1
Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Pappotherium pattersoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Pappotherium pattersoni 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 itPappotherium through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Slaughter 1965