Protoreodon pumilus

Protoreodon pumilus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtoreodonPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Agriochoeridae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Agriochoeridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

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 45.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 46 of 46 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 46 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39.7 Mya37.71 Mya46.4 Mya33.4 Mya

46 occurrences of Protoreodon pumilus 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

46 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

12 formations

Uinta — 40.07°N, 109.28°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WUinta — 40.15°N, 109.62°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.70°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WWiggins — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWiggins — 43.70°N, 108.70°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WChambers Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WDuchesne River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WColmena Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WSantiago — 33.15°N, 117.31°WSantiago — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSantiago — 33.13°N, 117.31°WDell Beds — 45.00°N, 112.80°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WClimbing Arrow — 46.00°N, 112.00°WBaca — 33.50°N, 108.80°W

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The named rock units Protoreodon pumilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protoreodon pumilus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Protoreodon pumilus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Protoreodon pumilus, 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

22 references

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. 9 further references are 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

Media content1

Picture of Protoreodon pumilus

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via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1875)