Cymbalophus cuniculus

Cymbalophus cuniculus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CymbalophusPBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB, for Perissodactyla
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Perissodactyla
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 6 occurrencesEocene56–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56.5 Mya47.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Cymbalophus cuniculus 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

6 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

3 formations

Suffolk Pebble Beds — 52.10°N, 1.32°ESuffolk Pebble Beds — 52.08°N, 1.10°ETienen — 50.33°N, 4.28°ELignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°E

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

Cymbalophus cuniculus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cymbalophus cuniculus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cymbalophus cuniculus, 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 6 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 content2

Picture of Cymbalophus cuniculus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Cymbalophus cuniculus · NHMUK:PAL:PV OR 36569

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1842)