Pseudorhyncocyonidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptictidaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
26 occurrences of Pseudorhyncocyonidae 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
26 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
9 formations
- Suffolk Pebble Beds Formation3
- Messel Formation3
- Calcaire de Ventenac Formation2
- Blackheath Beds Formation2
- Perrière Formation1
- Woolwich Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudorhyncocyonidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudorhyncocyonidae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pseudorhyncocyonidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
432 taxa- Blanidae4 sites
- Geiseltaliellus lamandini4 sites
- Plesiadapis tricuspidens4 sites
- Amphisbaenidae3 sites
- Anguini3 sites
- Berrulestes phelizoni3 sites
- Berrulestes poirieri3 sites
- Bustylus cernaysi3 sites
- Dipavali petri3 sites
- Fordonia lawsoni3 sites
- Geranopterus alatus3 sites
- Gigarton meyeri3 sites
- Gigarton sigogneauae3 sites
- Glamys priscus3 sites
- Lacertidae3 sites
- Landenodon lavocati3 sites
- Leptictidium prouti3 sites
- Leptictidium storchi3 sites
- Louisina marci3 sites
- Louisina mirabilis3 sites
- Necrosaurus3 sites
- Patriotheridomys altus3 sites
- Phakodon levei3 sites
- Placosaurus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Pseudorhyncocyonidae, 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
5 references- Origin and evolution of the Pseudorhyncocyonidae, a European Paleogene family of insectivorous placental mammals20
- Pseudorhyncocyon cayluxi Filhol, 1892 insectivore géant des Phosphorites du Quercy3
- The oldest Cenozoic mammal fauna of Europe: implication of the Hainin reference fauna for mammalian evolution and dispersals during the Paleocene1
- Mammiferes nouveaux de l'Ilerdien des Corbieres et du Minervois (Bas-Languedoc, France)1
- La poche a phosphate de Ste-Néboule (Lot) et sa faune de vertebres du Ludien Superieur. 8. - Insectivores et Chiroptères1
Each of the 26 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
Media content1
Picture of Pseudorhyncocyonidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Leptictidium
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudorhyncocyonidae 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 itLeptictida through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sigé 1974