Didymictis leptomylus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DidymictisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Viverravidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Didymictis
- 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.
50 occurrences of Didymictis leptomylus 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
50 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 Didymictis leptomylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Didymictis leptomylus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Didymictis leptomylus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Sifrhippus grangeri25 sites
- Haplomylus speirianus23 sites
- Hyopsodus18 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius17 sites
- Viverravus acutus17 sites
- Hyopsodus loomisi16 sites
- Cardiolophus radinskyi15 sites
- Coryphodon15 sites
- Diacodexis15 sites
- Esthonyx spatularius15 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus14 sites
- Arfia shoshoniensis13 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani13 sites
- Arctodontomys wilsoni12 sites
- Cantius12 sites
- Apheliscus11 sites
- Oxyaena gulo11 sites
- Prodiacodon tauricinerei11 sites
- Tetonius matthewi11 sites
- Arenahippus aemulor10 sites
- Ectocion parvus10 sites
- Thryptacodon antiquus10 sites
- Apheliscus chydaeus9 sites
- Cantius mckennai9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Didymictis leptomylus, 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
6 references- Ancestry and Species Definition in Paleontology: A Stratocladistic Analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming20
- Faunal Zonation of the Willwood Formation in the Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming13
- Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming11
- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary4
- Paleocene-Eocene land mammals from three new latest Clarkforkian and earliest Wasatchian wash sites at Polecat Bench in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.1
- New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage1
Each of the 50 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
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No picture of Didymictis leptomylus 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 Didymictis leptomylus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Didymictis leptomylus 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.
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What may have been alongside itDidymictis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1880)