Phenacodonta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PanperissodactylaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- 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 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
1,293 occurrences of Phenacodonta on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1,293 occurrencesThese 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
41 formations
- Willwood Formation461
- Fort Union Formation204
- DeBeque Formation91
- Wasatch Formation79
- Wind River Formation38
- Nacimiento Formation21
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The named rock units Phenacodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 260 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phenacodonta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Phenacodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
651 taxa- Ectocion osbornianus122 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius92 sites
- Coryphodon50 sites
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis41 sites
- Didymictis protenus36 sites
- Haplomylus simpsoni36 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani30 sites
- Probathyopsis praecursor30 sites
- Plesiadapis cookei27 sites
- Anisonchus sectorius25 sites
- Didymictis proteus24 sites
- Ectocion collinus23 sites
- Periptychus carinidens23 sites
- Azygonyx grangeri22 sites
- Promioclaenus acolytus22 sites
- Tricentes subtrigonus22 sites
- Apheliscus nitidus21 sites
- Dillerlemur pagei21 sites
- Dissacus praenuntius21 sites
- Aletodon gunnelli19 sites
- Emydidae19 sites
- Psittacotherium multifragum18 sites
- Thryptacodon antiquus18 sites
- Chriacus baldwini17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 810 sites for Phenacodonta, and this reads 240 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
110 references- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary278
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals184
- Evolution of Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra)154
- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary148
- The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming126
- Faunal Zonation of the Willwood Formation in the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming53
- Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming42
- Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado39
- New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage20
- New Records of Eutherian Mammals from the Goler Formation (Tiffanian, Paleocene) of California and Their Biostratigraphic and Paleobiogeographic Implications13
- Geology and mammalian paleontology of the New Fork-Big Sandy area, Sublette County, Wyoming13
- Meniscotherium (Mammalia, "Condylarthra) from the Paleocene-Eocene of Western North America)12
Each of the 1,293 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. 98 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 content0
No picture of Phenacodonta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Phenacodonta itself, so it was not used.
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 Phenacodonta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phenacodonta 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 itPanperissodactyla through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McKenna 1975