Paroxyclaenidae

Paroxyclaenidae is an extinct family of pantolestan mammals that ranges from the early Eocene to the early Oligocene. Most members of the family are found throughout Europe, though Welcommoides, the youngest and largest member, lived in what is now Pakistan. Due to their dentition and postcranial anatomy, paroxyclaenids have been suggested to have been arboreal frugivores, foraging for fruit in the trees.

Paroxyclaenidae

Daderot · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CondylarthraPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48.07 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

16 occurrences of Paroxyclaenidae 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

16 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

3 formations

Lignites de Soissonais — 49.15°N, 3.92°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ECreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°W

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The named rock units Paroxyclaenidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paroxyclaenidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paroxyclaenidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

272 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Paroxyclaenidae, 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

8 references

Each of the 16 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 Paroxyclaenidae

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Daderot
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paroxyclaenidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCondylarthra through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weitzel