Apatemys bellus

Apatemys bellus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ApatemysPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Apatemyidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Apatemyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Apatemyidae

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 39.7 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 17 of 17 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51.1 Mya45.9 Mya56.5 Mya39.2 Mya

17 occurrences of Apatemys bellus 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

17 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

10 formations

Friars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°W"Sheep Pass" — 39.00°N, 114.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WWillwood — 44.40°N, 108.72°W

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The named rock units Apatemys bellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Apatemys bellus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Apatemys bellus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Apatemys bellus, 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

11 references

Each of the 17 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 Apatemys bellus

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iDigBio
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Apatemys bellus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itApatemys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1872