Phenacodus vortmani

Phenacodus vortmani

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhenacodusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Phenacodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Phenacodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 51.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 45.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 67 of 198 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 131 of 198 occurrencesEocene61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 4 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 4 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 12 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 16 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 16 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 14 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 14 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 14 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 14 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 14 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 14 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 14 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 14 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 14 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57.5 Mya51.1 Mya61.4 Mya45.4 Mya

198 occurrences of Phenacodus vortmani 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

198 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

13 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.53°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.57°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.41°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.33°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.68°N, 108.34°WFort Union — 44.70°N, 108.37°WFort Union — 44.73°N, 108.60°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 44.05°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 109.12°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.01°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.79°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.89°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.27°N, 108.18°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 42.24°N, 110.19°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WLas Tetas de Cabra — 28.68°N, 114.08°WIndian Meadows — 43.20°N, 108.20°WMiddle Variegated Sequence — 43.20°N, 108.20°WGoler — 35.65°N, 117.94°W

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The named rock units Phenacodus vortmani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phenacodus vortmani and its relatives

Eocene

Where Phenacodus vortmani and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

579 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 198 sites for Phenacodus vortmani, 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

29 references

Each of the 198 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. 17 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 Phenacodus vortmani

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phenacodus vortmani 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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What may have been alongside itPhenacodus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1880)