Paracontogenys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XantusiidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, herbivorePBDB, for Xantusiidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Xantusiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 39.7 Mya.
6 occurrences of Paracontogenys on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous17%
- Eocene83%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paracontogenys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paracontogenys and its relatives
EoceneWhere Paracontogenys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Glyptosaurinae5 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti5 sites
- Metanoiamys agorus5 sites
- Microparamys minutus5 sites
- Palaeoxantusia allisoni5 sites
- Sciuravus powayensis5 sites
- Uintasorex montezumicus5 sites
- Washakius woodringi5 sites
- Centetodon aztecus4 sites
- Tinosaurus stenodon4 sites
- Crypholestes vaughni3 sites
- Odaxosaurus3 sites
- Palaeoxantusia kyrentos3 sites
- Parasauromalus olseni3 sites
- Pareumys grangeri3 sites
- Patriolestes novaceki3 sites
- Peradectes californicus3 sites
- Aethomylos simplicidens2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
- Iguanidae2 sites
- Metarhinus pater2 sites
- Omomyidae2 sites
- Saniwa ensidens2 sites
- ? Rhinophyrinidae indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Paracontogenys, 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- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California5
- Taphonomic modes in the Maastrichtian continental deposits of the Haţeg Basin, Romania—palaeoecological and palaeobiological inferences1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Paracontogenys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Paracontogenys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracontogenys 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 itXantusiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schatzinger 1975