Prodiacodon tauricinerei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProdiacodonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Leptictidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Leptictidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
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 51.1 Mya.
46 occurrences of Prodiacodon tauricinerei on record. 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
46 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Willwood Formation21
- Wasatch Formation9
- Fort Union Formation4
- DeBeque Formation4
- "Wasatch" Formation3
- San Jose Formation1
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The named rock units Prodiacodon tauricinerei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
339 taxa- Haplomylus speirianus27 sites
- Hyopsodus27 sites
- Coryphodon26 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus23 sites
- Paramys excavatus22 sites
- Apheliscus21 sites
- Phenacolemurinae21 sites
- Diacodexis20 sites
- Sifrhippus grangeri20 sites
- Esthonyx spatularius19 sites
- Phenacodus18 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani18 sites
- Thryptacodon antiquus17 sites
- Didelphodus absarokae16 sites
- Prototomus16 sites
- Didymictis15 sites
- Macrocranion nitens15 sites
- Viverravus acutus15 sites
- Cantius14 sites
- Labidolemur kayi14 sites
- Niptomomys doreenae14 sites
- Tetonius14 sites
- Cantius mckennai13 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Prodiacodon tauricinerei, 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
10 references- Faunal Zonation of the Willwood Formation in the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming14
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals13
- The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary5
- The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming4
- Early Eocene Mammalian Fauna of the Piceance Creek Basin. Northwestern Colorado4
- Distribution and stratigraphic correlation of upper Paleocene and lower Eocene fossil mammal and plant localities of the Fort Union, Willwood, and Tatman formations, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming2
- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary1
- Krause, 19861
- New Omomyid Primates (Haplorhini, Tarsiiformes) from Middle Eocene Rocks of West-Central Hot Springs County, Wyoming1
- A review of Paleocene and Eocene Leptictidae (Mammalia: Eutheria) from North America1
Each of the 46 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 Prodiacodon tauricinerei
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Prodiacodon tauricinerei 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jepsen 1930)