Psittacotherium multifragum

Psittacotherium multifragum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsittacotheriumPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Stylinodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Stylinodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Stylinodontidae

Time the record covers

At most 5.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 63.4 Mya and 57.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 23 of 23 occurrencesPaleocene63–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63.9 Mya57 Mya

23 occurrences of Psittacotherium multifragum 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

23 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

4 formations

Nacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 36.18°N, 107.58°WNacimiento — 36.27°N, 107.76°WBlack Peaks — 29.42°N, 103.10°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WBlack Peaks — 29.46°N, 103.15°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 45.80°N, 109.80°W

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The named rock units Psittacotherium multifragum 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.

Psittacotherium multifragum and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Psittacotherium multifragum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

203 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Psittacotherium multifragum, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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 Psittacotherium multifragum

Credit
ДиБгд
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Psittacotherium multifragum was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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What may have been alongside itPsittacotherium through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1882