Arfia zele
No picture of Arfia zele was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arfia zele, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArfiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Hyaenodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Arfia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
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.
24 occurrences of Arfia zele 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
24 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 Arfia zele has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arfia zele and its relatives
EoceneWhere Arfia zele and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Sifrhippus grangeri20 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus11 sites
- Esthonyx spatularius11 sites
- Arctodontomys wilsoni10 sites
- Apheliscus chydaeus9 sites
- Haplomylus speirianus9 sites
- Cantius ralstoni8 sites
- Coryphodon8 sites
- Hyopsodus8 sites
- Phenacodus7 sites
- Viverravus acutus7 sites
- Viverravus politus7 sites
- Cardiolophus radinskyi6 sites
- Eucosmodon ultimus6 sites
- Ignacius graybullianus6 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani6 sites
- Phenacolemurinae6 sites
- Prodiacodon tauricinerei6 sites
- Tinimomys graybulliensis6 sites
- Dipsalidictis transiens5 sites
- Hyopsodus loomisi5 sites
- Tetonius5 sites
- Thryptacodon antiquus5 sites
- Uintacyon rudis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Arfia zele, 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
3 references- Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming20
- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary3
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
Each of the 24 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Arfia zele was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arfia zele, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arfia zele 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArfia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gingerich and Deutsch 1989