Platychoerops daubrei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatychoeropsPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Plesiadapoidea
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Platychoerops daubrei 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Platychoerops daubrei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Platychoerops daubrei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Platychoerops daubrei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Diacodexis varleti4 sites
- Allaeochelys3 sites
- Apatemys sigogneaui3 sites
- Arcius fuscus3 sites
- Arcius lapparenti3 sites
- Axestemys vittata3 sites
- Bunophorus3 sites
- Calamagras gallicus3 sites
- Dunnophis matronensis3 sites
- Eolacerta3 sites
- Neochelys eocaenica3 sites
- Paroxyclaenidae3 sites
- Tinosaurus europeocaenus3 sites
- Trionyx3 sites
- Uintacyon hookeri3 sites
- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
- Anguini2 sites
- Apatemys mutiniacus2 sites
- Archaeonycteris brailloni2 sites
- Avenius amatorum2 sites
- Cantius savagei2 sites
- Didelphodus2 sites
- Geiseltaliellus longicaudus2 sites
- Gekkonidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Platychoerops daubrei, 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
2 references- Cranial Anatomy and Evolution of Early Tertiary Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates)5
- A mammal fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum of Croydon, London, UK1
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Platychoerops daubrei
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Platychoerops daubrei 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 itPlatychoerops through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lemoine 1880)