Absarokius gazini

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AbsarokiusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Omomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Absarokius gazini 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Absarokius gazini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Absarokius gazini and its relatives
EoceneWhere Absarokius gazini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Cantius frugivorus1 site
- Copecion brachypternus1 site
- Copelemur praetutus1 site
- Diacodexis1 site
- Esthonyx1 site
- Haplomylus speirianus1 site
- Hyopsodus loomisi1 site
- Hyracotherium1 site
- Meniscotherium tapiacitum1 site
- Microsyops latidens1 site
- Steinius vespertinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Absarokius gazini, 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
2 references- Primates from Later Eocene Rocks of Southern California2
- Patterns of Dental Evolution in Early Eocene Anaptomorphine Primates (Omomyidae) from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Absarokius gazini
- 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 Absarokius gazini 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 itAbsarokius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bown and Rose 1987