Bathygenys

Bathygenys is an extinct genus of oreodont within the family Merycoidodontidae and subfamily Oreonetinae, endemic to western North America. It lived during the late Eocene.

Bathygenys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OreonetinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 5.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 31.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 22 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesOligocene37–37 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.5 Mya31.3 Mya

23 occurrences of Bathygenys 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

23 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

8 formations

White River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 40.97°N, 106.22°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WCapote Mountain Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WPreitos — 29.80°N, 104.50°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°W

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The named rock units Bathygenys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bathygenys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bathygenys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

248 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Bathygenys, 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 23 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 Bathygenys

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bathygenys 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douglass 1902