Pararyctes

No picture of Pararyctes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pararyctes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeoryctidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 7.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 51.1 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPaleocene — about 19 of 20 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63.4 Mya56 Mya66.5 Mya50.6 Mya

20 occurrences of Pararyctes 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

20 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

10 formations

Paskapoo — 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 — 53.23°N, 114.70°WRavenscrag — 49.70°N, 110.10°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WCoalspur — 53.00°N, 116.80°WSlope — 46.70°N, 101.80°WFort Union — 46.70°N, 101.80°WBullion Creek — 47.03°N, 103.65°WMelville — 45.80°N, 109.80°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WPorcupine Hills — 51.03°N, 114.09°W

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The named rock units Pararyctes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pararyctes and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Pararyctes and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

326 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pararyctes, 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

12 references

Each of the 20 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 Pararyctes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pararyctes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Van Valen 1966