Prototomus

Prototomus

Fox, M. · CC0 · 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
SinopinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 194 occurrencesEocene — about 194 of 194 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 194 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 10 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 29 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 29 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 29 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 29 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 29 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 29 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51.1 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

194 occurrences of Prototomus 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

194 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

13 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.53°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.38°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.81°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.80°N, 109.10°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.54°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.62°N, 108.40°WWillwood — 44.34°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.35°N, 108.75°WWillwood — 44.68°N, 108.73°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.85°N, 110.76°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ETienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°EBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°ETuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°ENaran Bulak — 44.62°N, 106.18°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.15°N, 3.92°ESuffolk Pebble Beds — 52.10°N, 1.32°E

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The named rock units Prototomus 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.

Prototomus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Prototomus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

728 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 170 sites for Prototomus, 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 194 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. 10 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 Prototomus

Credit
Fox, M.
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Cope 1874