Quadratomus grandis
No picture of Quadratomus grandis 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 Quadratomus grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- QuadratomusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Quadratomus grandis 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
10 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Quadratomus grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Quadratomus grandis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Quadratomus grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Smilodectes mcgrewi6 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus5 sites
- Sciuravus nitidus5 sites
- Microsyops elegans4 sites
- Omomys carteri4 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus3 sites
- Helaletes nanus3 sites
- Notharctus robinsoni3 sites
- Apatemys bellulus2 sites
- Didelphidae2 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus2 sites
- Hyrachyus2 sites
- Hyracotherium vasacciense2 sites
- Knightomys depressus2 sites
- Knightomys huerfanensis2 sites
- Megadelphus lundeliusi2 sites
- Mesonyx obtusidens2 sites
- Microsyops scottianus2 sites
- Nyctitherium curtidens2 sites
- Oodectes herpestoides2 sites
- Orohippus pumilus2 sites
- Paramys copei2 sites
- Paramys delicatus2 sites
- Scenopagus edenensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Quadratomus grandis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Quadratomus grandis 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 Quadratomus grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Quadratomus grandis 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 itQuadratomus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1962)