Teilhardina

Teilhardina is an extinct marmoset-like omomyid primate that lived in Europe, North America and Asia during the Early Eocene epoch, about 56 to 47 million years ago. The paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson named it after the French paleontologist, Jesuit and philosopher Teilhard de Chardin.

Teilhardina

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
OmomyidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 62 occurrencesEocene — about 61 of 62 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 62 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 62 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 9 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 9 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 9 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51.1 Mya37.71 Mya56.7 Mya22.4 Mya

62 occurrences of Teilhardina 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

62 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

14 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.77°N, 109.08°WWillwood — 44.51°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.61°N, 108.50°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.92°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.82°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWillwood — 43.99°N, 107.72°WHuangzhuang — 35.60°N, 117.03°EHedi — 34.80°N, 111.91°EHedi — 35.03°N, 111.80°EShara Murum — 42.04°N, 111.53°ETienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°ETienen — 50.33°N, 4.28°EIrdin Manha — 42.63°N, 111.35°EWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WTuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°WGolden Valley — 46.90°N, 102.80°WLushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ELingcha — 27.08°N, 112.95°EVaugirard — 48.81°N, 2.24°ESuffolk Pebble Beds — 52.09°N, 1.32°E

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The named rock units Teilhardina 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.

Teilhardina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Teilhardina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

501 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Teilhardina, 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

24 references

Each of the 62 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. 12 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 Teilhardina

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Teilhardina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itOmomyidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1940