Protungulatum donnae

Protungulatum donnae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtungulatumPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Protungulatum
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Arctocyonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 8.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 63.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 36 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 35 of 36 occurrencesPaleocene72–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences72.7 Mya62.9 Mya

36 occurrences of Protungulatum donnae 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

36 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

6 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.21°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 41.66°N, 107.80°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 106.20°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.10°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WDenver — 39.50°N, 104.70°W

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

Protungulatum donnae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Protungulatum donnae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Protungulatum donnae, 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 36 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

Media content1

Picture of Protungulatum donnae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Protungulatum donnae 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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What may have been alongside itProtungulatum through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sloan and Van Valen 1965