Prochetodon

Prochetodon is a genus of mammals from the extinct order Multituberculata. It lived during the Upper Paleocene and the Lower Eocene in North America. The genus was formally named by G. L. Jepsen in 1940.

Prochetodon

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
PtilodontidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Ptilodontidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Ptilodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 5.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 63.4 Mya to 57.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPaleocene — about 31 of 31 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence63.4 Mya57.5 Mya66.5 Mya55.5 Mya

31 occurrences of Prochetodon 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

31 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

5 formations

Fort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 44.89°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 44.81°N, 108.83°WFort Union — 41.75°N, 109.04°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WPaskapoo — 51.90°N, 113.30°WPaskapoo — 52.23°N, 113.63°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WSentinel Butte — 47.20°N, 101.90°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°W

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The named rock units Prochetodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prochetodon and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Prochetodon and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

352 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Prochetodon, 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

11 references

Each of the 31 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 Prochetodon

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

No 3D scan of Prochetodon 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPtilodontidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jepsen 1940