Taeniolabidoidea

Taeniolabidoidea is a group of extinct mammals known whose fossils can be found in North America and Asia. They were the largest members of the extinct order Multituberculata, as well as the largest non-therian mammals. Lambdopsalis even provides direct fossil evidence of mammalian fur in a fairly good state of preservation for a 60-million-year-old animal. Some of these animals were large for their time; Taeniolabis taoensis is the largest known multituberculate and though smaller, Yubaatar is the largest known Mesozoic Asian multituberculate. T. taoensis averaged a body mass of 22.7 kilograms (50 lb).

Taeniolabidoidea

Nobu Tamura email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com http://spinops.blogspot.com/ http://paleoexhibit.blogspot.com/ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CimolodontaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Multituberculata
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Multituberculata
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 76 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 76 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 69 of 76 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 76 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 27 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 19 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences93.9 Mya59.24 Mya101.4 Mya55.1 Mya

76 occurrences of Taeniolabidoidea 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

76 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

20 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.83°N, 106.18°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.31°N, 108.00°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNomogen — 43.37°N, 110.75°ENomogen — 43.53°N, 111.73°ENomogen — 43.15°N, 111.58°ENomogen — 43.00°N, 111.42°EDenver — 39.70°N, 104.70°WDenver — 38.91°N, 104.53°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WPorcupine Hills — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPorcupine Hills — 51.10°N, 114.28°WPorcupine Hills — 51.21°N, 114.04°WPorcupine Hills — 51.10°N, 114.22°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WNorth Horn — 39.18°N, 111.27°WKhashat — 44.00°N, 104.00°EFerris — 41.94°N, 106.86°WTullock — 47.60°N, 107.00°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHekou — 25.82°N, 114.93°EHekou — 25.87°N, 115.00°EStraight Cliffs — 37.60°N, 111.97°WLewisville — 32.90°N, 97.00°WFox Hills — 44.50°N, 102.30°WLudlow — 46.30°N, 104.50°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.10°WBear — 46.20°N, 109.90°WNaran Bulak — 43.47°N, 100.45°EDjadokhta — 44.16°N, 103.69°E

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The named rock units Taeniolabidoidea 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.

Taeniolabidoidea and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Taeniolabidoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

512 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Taeniolabidoidea, 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

34 references

Each of the 76 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. 22 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 Taeniolabidoidea

Credit
Nobu Tamura email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com http://spinops.blogspot.com/ http://paleoexhibit.blogspot.com/
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Taeniolabidoidea 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sloan and Van Valen 1965)