Propterodon

Propterodon

Matthew W. D. & Granger W. · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
HyaenodontinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Hyaenodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesOligocene57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39.7 Mya – 37.71 Mya56.6 Mya26.7 Mya

10 occurrences of Propterodon 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

10 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

Irdin Manha — 43.33°N, 111.76°EIrdin Manha — 43.65°N, 111.98°EHedi — 35.12°N, 111.85°EHuangzhuang — 35.60°N, 117.03°EHetaoyuan — 33.00°N, 111.42°EShara Murum — 42.04°N, 111.53°ELushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EPondaung — 21.70°N, 94.76°EUinta — 40.15°N, 109.62°W

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The named rock units Propterodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Propterodon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Propterodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Propterodon, 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

Each of the 10 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 Propterodon

Credit
Matthew W. D. & Granger W.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Propterodon 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHyaenodontinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martin 1906