Bownomomys americanus

No picture of Bownomomys americanus 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 Bownomomys americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BownomomysPBDB
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.

Paleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 16 occurrencesEocene56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56.5 Mya50.6 Mya

16 occurrences of Bownomomys americanus 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

16 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

1 formation

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.82°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.76°W

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

Bownomomys americanus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bownomomys americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Bownomomys americanus, 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

4 references

Each of the 16 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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Bownomomys americanus · uw:7170

No picture of Bownomomys americanus 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 Bownomomys americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itBownomomys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bown 1976)