Pseudocylindrodon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CylindrodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 5.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 45.9 Mya to 31.8 Mya.
31 occurrences of Pseudocylindrodon 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
31 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Chadron Formation6
- Cypress Hills Formation5
- Wagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") Formation4
- Chambers Tuff Formation2
- Renova Formation2
- White River Formation2
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The named rock units Pseudocylindrodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudocylindrodon and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pseudocylindrodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
463 taxa- Brontotheriidae16 sites
- Palaeolagus temnodon12 sites
- Ectypodus lovei10 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax10 sites
- Adjidaumo minimus9 sites
- Aulolithomys bounites9 sites
- Domnina gradata9 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus9 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius8 sites
- Ischyromys veterior8 sites
- Leptomeryx8 sites
- Megalagus brachyodon8 sites
- Oligoryctes cameronensis8 sites
- Prosciurus vetustus8 sites
- <Novacek leptictid>7 sites
- Equidae7 sites
- Herpetotherium valens7 sites
- Hesperocyon7 sites
- Micropternodus borealis7 sites
- Adjidaumo minutus6 sites
- Centetodon chadronensis6 sites
- Douglassciurus jeffersoni6 sites
- Eomyidae6 sites
- Epihippus gracilis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Pseudocylindrodon, 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
15 references- Correlation of the early Oligocene (Chadronian) in northwestern Nebraska5
- Eocene-Oligocene faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan4
- Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transition, southwestern Montana4
- A New Pareumys (Rodentia: Cylindrodontidae) from the Duchesne River Formation, Utah4
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Trans-Pecos Texas. Part I: Vieja Area2
- Early Tertiary vertebrate faunas, Vieja Group Trans-Pecos Texas: Rodentia2
- Rodents from the Chadronian (Latest Eocene) Medicine Pole Hills Local Fauna, North Dakota. Part 1. Eutypomyidae, Cylindrodontidae, and Pipestoneomys1
- Lagomorphs from the Yihesubu late Eocene of Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia)1
- Tertiary paleontology of southwest Montana and adjacent Idaho1
- A latest Chadronian (Late Eocene) mammalian fauna from the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan1
- The Rodents of the Lac Pelletier Lower Fauna, Late Eocene (Duchesnean) of Saskatchewan1
Each of the 31 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. 3 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 Pseudocylindrodon
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Pseudocylindrodon 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 itCylindrodontidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burke 1935