Thryptacodon antiquus

Thryptacodon antiquus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThryptacodonPBDB
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 6.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 51.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 45.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 19 of 95 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 76 of 95 occurrencesEocene61–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 8 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 8 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 8 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 8 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 8 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 8 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57.5 Mya51.1 Mya61.4 Mya45.4 Mya

95 occurrences of Thryptacodon antiquus 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

95 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

Willwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.89°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°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°W

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The named rock units Thryptacodon antiquus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thryptacodon antiquus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Thryptacodon antiquus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

421 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Thryptacodon antiquus, 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

12 references

Each of the 95 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 Thryptacodon antiquus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Thryptacodon antiquus 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.

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

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

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