Proxestops
No picture of Proxestops was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Proxestops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlyptosaurinaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Glyptosaurinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Glyptosaurinae
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
20 occurrences of Proxestops 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
20 occurrences- Late Cretaceous10%
- Paleocene60%
- Eocene30%
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
7 formations
- Fort Union Formation5
- Willwood Formation4
- Nacimiento Formation3
- Aguja Formation2
- North Horn Formation2
- Wasatch Formation2
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The named rock units Proxestops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Proxestops and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Proxestops and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
464 taxa- Glyptosaurinae6 sites
- Lepisosteus5 sites
- Protictis haydenianus5 sites
- Tricentes subtrigonus5 sites
- Allognathosuchus4 sites
- Anguidae4 sites
- Anisonchus sectorius4 sites
- Anura4 sites
- Entomophontes incrustatus4 sites
- Gerrhonotinae4 sites
- Habrosaurus dilatus4 sites
- Odaxosaurus piger4 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi4 sites
- Promioclaenus acolytus4 sites
- Saniwa4 sites
- Squamata4 sites
- Tetraclaenodon puercensis4 sites
- Anconodon cochranensis3 sites
- Arctocyon corrugatus3 sites
- Baiotomeus douglassi3 sites
- Bryanictis microlestes3 sites
- Chriacus baldwini3 sites
- Coryphodon3 sites
- Crocodylia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Proxestops, 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
12 references- Paleocene Caudata and Squamata from Gidley and Silberling quarries, Montana3
- Annotated list of lower vertebrates from the Paleocene Nacimiento Formation (Puercan-Torrejonian), San Juan Basin, New Mexico3
- Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards2
- Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana2
- Paleocene (Puercan-Torrejonian) mammalian faunas of the North Horn Formation, central Utah2
- Paleocene faunas of the Polecat Bench Formation, Park County, Wyoming Part II. Lizards2
- Paleoecology of the Gaddis Site in the Upper Cretaceous Aguja Formation, Terlingua, Texas1
- The long-term history of dispersal among lizards in the early Eocene: new evidence from a microvertebrate assemblage in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, USA1
- A new lizard assemblage from the earliest Eocene (zone Wa0) of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA: biogeography during the warmest interval of the Cenozoic1
- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary1
- The Campanian Terlingua local fauna, with a summary of other vertebrates from the Aguja Formation, Trans-Pecos Texas1
- New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage1
Each of the 20 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
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No picture of Proxestops was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Proxestops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Proxestops 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 itGlyptosaurinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gauthier 1982