Periconodon helveticus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PericonodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Periconodon helveticus 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Periconodon helveticus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Periconodon helveticus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Adapis1 site
- Anchomomys (Fendantia) pygmaeus1 site
- Caenopithecus lemuroides1 site
- Catodontherium buxgovianum1 site
- Dacrytherium elegans1 site
- Dacrytherium priscum1 site
- Dichodon1 site
- Dichodon simplex1 site
- Haplobunodon muelleri1 site
- Haplobunodon solodurense1 site
- Haplomeryx egerkingensis1 site
- Heterohyus1 site
- Hyperdichobune langi1 site
- Hyperdichobune nobilis1 site
- Meniscodon europaeum1 site
- Meniscodon picteti1 site
- Mixtotherium priscum1 site
- Mouillacitherium cartieri1 site
- Nannopithex filholi1 site
- Necrolemur zitteli1 site
- Protadelomys cartieri1 site
- Pseudamphimeryx schlosseri1 site
- Rhagatherium kowalevskyi1 site
- Tapirulus majori1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Periconodon helveticus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Periconodon helveticus
- 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 Periconodon helveticus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPericonodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rütimeyer 1891)