Promioclaenus acolytus

Promioclaenus acolytus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PromioclaenusPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Hyopsodontidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 5.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 39 of 39 occurrencesPaleocene63–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63.9 Mya57 Mya

39 occurrences of Promioclaenus acolytus 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

39 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

8 formations

Fort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 41.68°N, 107.52°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.18°N, 107.58°WNacimiento — 36.27°N, 107.76°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 45.80°N, 109.80°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 46.20°N, 109.90°WOhio Creek — 40.28°N, 108.30°WHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WEvanston — 41.58°N, 110.68°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°W

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The named rock units Promioclaenus acolytus 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.

Promioclaenus acolytus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Promioclaenus acolytus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

263 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Promioclaenus acolytus, 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

13 references

Each of the 39 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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

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Picture of Promioclaenus acolytus

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Commercial use
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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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Everything alive alongside itPromioclaenus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1882)