Utemylus latomius

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UtemylusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 57.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Utemylus latomius 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
1 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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.
Utemylus latomius and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Utemylus latomius and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Carpodaptes aulacodon1 site
- Chiromyoides caesor1 site
- Ectypodus musculus1 site
- Ignacius frugivorus1 site
- Ignatiolambda barnesi1 site
- Labidolemur soricoides1 site
- Leptacodon tener1 site
- Nannodectes gidleyi1 site
- Navajovius kohlhaasae1 site
- Ogygoptynx wetmorei1 site
- Peradectes elegans1 site
- Ptilodus kummae1 site
- Thryptacodon australis1 site
- Xenacodon mutilatus1 site
- Zanycteris paleocenus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Utemylus latomius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Utemylus latomius
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Utemylus latomius 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 itUtemylus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gingerich 1983