Diacodexis minutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiacodexisPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Diacodexis
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Diacodexis
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
7 occurrences of Diacodexis minutus 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
7 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 Diacodexis minutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diacodexis minutus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Diacodexis minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Bunophorus sinclairi6 sites
- Diacodexis secans4 sites
- Hyopsodus walcottianus4 sites
- Hyopsodus wortmani4 sites
- Esthonyx acutidens3 sites
- Hyracotherium vasacciense3 sites
- Microsyops scottianus3 sites
- Paramys excavatus3 sites
- Parictops multicuspis3 sites
- Perissodactyla3 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani3 sites
- Viverravus gracilis3 sites
- Absarokius abbotti2 sites
- Acritoparamys francesi2 sites
- Bunophorus2 sites
- Cantius nunienus2 sites
- Centetodon altidens2 sites
- Didymictis altidens2 sites
- Glyptosaurus sylvestris2 sites
- Heptodon calciculus2 sites
- Heptodon posticus2 sites
- Herpetotherium innominatum2 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium2 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Diacodexis minutus, 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
2 references- Revision of the Eocene Wind River Faunas, Early Eocene of Central Wyoming. Part 7. Revision of Diacodexis (Mammalian, Artiodactyla)6
- Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 5. Geology and biostratigraphy of the upper part of the Wind River Formation, northeastern Wind River Basin1
Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Diacodexis minutus 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 Diacodexis minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diacodexis minutus 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 itDiacodexis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krishtalka and Stucky 1985