Petauristodon

Petauristodon

Art Poyer; Gary S. Morgan · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
SciuridaePBDB
Diet
granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 24.7 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 210 ka.

Oligocene — about 4 of 40 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 35 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.0–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24.7 Mya1.4 Mya30.1 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Petauristodon on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

40 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

20 formations

MR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.75°WOakville — 30.10°N, 96.10°WFleming — 30.70°N, 94.70°WFleming — 31.10°N, 93.10°WHepburn's Mesa — 45.80°N, 110.50°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WNS Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WSespe — 33.60°N, 117.61°WJohn Day — 45.08°N, 119.87°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WAsh Hollow — 42.63°N, 100.05°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WWood Mountain — 49.17°N, 105.99°WColter — 43.90°N, 110.80°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WPunchbowl — 34.80°N, 117.00°WCrowder — 34.80°N, 117.00°WCajon Valley Beds — 34.80°N, 117.00°WCucaracha — 9.05°N, 79.67°W

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The named rock units Petauristodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Petauristodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Petauristodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

596 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Petauristodon, 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

16 references

Each of the 40 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Petauristodon

Source
GBIF
Credit
Art Poyer; Gary S. Morgan
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Petauristodon 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Engesser 1979