Plagioctenodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NyctitheriinaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Nyctitheriidae

Time the record covers

At least 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Paleocene — about 15 of 27 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 27 occurrencesEocene61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57.5 Mya – 56 Mya61.4 Mya47.6 Mya

27 occurrences of Plagioctenodon 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

27 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

6 formations

Willwood — 44.78°N, 108.97°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.75°N, 109.04°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WTuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WTienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°EWoolwich — 51.37°N, 0.09°W

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The named rock units Plagioctenodon 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.

Plagioctenodon and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Plagioctenodon and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Plagioctenodon, 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

15 references

Each of the 27 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. 3 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

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No picture of Plagioctenodon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Plagioctenodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plagioctenodon 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 itNyctitheriinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bown 1979