Phenacolophus fallax
No picture of Phenacolophus fallax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phenacolophus fallax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhenacolophusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Phenacolophus fallax on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Phenacolophus fallax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phenacolophus fallax and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Phenacolophus fallax and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Eurymylus laticeps1 site
- Hyracolestes ermineus1 site
- Palaeostylops1 site
- Palaeostylops iturus1 site
- Palaeostylops macrodon1 site
- Praolestes nanus1 site
- Prionessus lucifer1 site
- Prodinoceras martyr1 site
- Pseudictops lophiodon1 site
- Sarcodon pygmaeus1 site
- Sphenopsalis nobilis1 site
- Testudines1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Phenacolophus fallax, 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
2 references- A new coryphodont from Mongolia, and on evolution and distribution of Pantodonta1
- Fauna and correlation of the Gashato Formation of Mongolia1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Phenacolophus fallax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phenacolophus fallax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phenacolophus fallax was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
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What may have been alongside itPhenacolophus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1925