Pontifactor

Pontifactor

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 57.5 Mya to 39.7 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesEocene58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 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 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya45.9 Mya58 Mya39.2 Mya

8 occurrences of Pontifactor 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

8 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

4 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WSuffolk Pebble Beds — 52.09°N, 1.32°E

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The named rock units Pontifactor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pontifactor and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pontifactor and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

212 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pontifactor, 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

8 references

Each of the 8 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. 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 Pontifactor

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pontifactor was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itPlacentidentinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. West 1974