Thryptacodon

Thryptacodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArctocyonidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Arctocyonidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Arctocyonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 51.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 45.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 169 occurrencesPaleocene — about 90 of 169 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 79 of 169 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 10 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 10 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 11 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 11 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 12 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 15 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 14 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 11 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 11 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 11 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 11 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 11 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 11 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 10 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61.66 Mya51.1 Mya66.5 Mya45.4 Mya

169 occurrences of Thryptacodon 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

169 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

15 formations

Willwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.58°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.54°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.61°N, 108.33°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.62°N, 108.82°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.85°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.89°N, 108.91°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 39.27°N, 108.18°WFort Union — 44.66°N, 108.30°WFort Union — 44.73°N, 108.60°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.46°WFort Union — 44.51°N, 108.88°WFort Union — 44.05°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.77°WFort Union — 44.90°N, 109.05°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.27°N, 108.18°WHoback — 42.70°N, 110.10°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WBullion Creek — 47.03°N, 103.65°WHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WSlope — 46.70°N, 101.80°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WEvanston — 41.80°N, 110.70°W"Fort Union No. 3" (= Melville) — 45.80°N, 109.80°WMelville — 45.80°N, 109.80°WGoler — 35.50°N, 117.97°W

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The named rock units Thryptacodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thryptacodon and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Thryptacodon and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

814 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Thryptacodon, 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

38 references

Each of the 169 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. 26 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 content2

Picture of Thryptacodon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Thryptacodon sp. · CM:VertPaleo:79104

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1915