Prochetodon speirsae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProchetodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Ptilodontidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Ptilodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Prochetodon speirsae 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
4 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 Prochetodon speirsae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prochetodon speirsae and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Prochetodon speirsae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Elpidophorus elegans3 sites
- Ptilodus3 sites
- Anconodon gidleyi2 sites
- Arctocyon corrugatus2 sites
- Bessoecetor septentrionalis2 sites
- Bisonalveus browni2 sites
- Carpodaptes hazelae2 sites
- Creodonta2 sites
- Ectypodus2 sites
- Elphidotarsius wightoni2 sites
- Leptacodon munusculum2 sites
- Leptacodon tener2 sites
- Litocherus zygeus2 sites
- Mimetodon silberlingi2 sites
- Neoplagiaulax donaldorum2 sites
- Pararyctes pattersoni2 sites
- Picrodus canpacius2 sites
- Presbytherium rhodorugatus2 sites
- Pronothodectes gaoi2 sites
- Titanoides2 sites
- Torrejonia sirokyi2 sites
- Acheronodon1 site
- Acreodi1 site
- Adunator minutus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Prochetodon speirsae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Prochetodon speirsae 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 Prochetodon speirsae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProchetodon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott 2004