Gesneropithex
No picture of Gesneropithex 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 Gesneropithex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphilemuridaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Gesneropithex 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
5 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 Gesneropithex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gesneropithex and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gesneropithex and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
195 taxa- Acotherulum campichii2 sites
- Cebochoerus robiacensis2 sites
- Choeropotamus2 sites
- Emys2 sites
- Eurohippus parvulus2 sites
- Glandina2 sites
- Helix2 sites
- Lophiotherium siderolithicum2 sites
- Melanopsis2 sites
- Microchiroptera2 sites
- Palaeotherium2 sites
- Paludina2 sites
- Planorbis2 sites
- Teleostei2 sites
- Unio2 sites
- ? Mixotherium sp.1 site
- ? Panolestidae indet.1 site
- "Filholia" sp.1 site
- Achatina1 site
- Adapinae1 site
- Adapis1 site
- Adapis collinsonae1 site
- Adapis sudrei1 site
- Adelomyinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gesneropithex, 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
5 references- Catalogue of the Eocene mammal types of the Natural History Museum Basel1
- A diverse rodent fauna from the middle Bartonian (Eocene) of Les Alleveys, Switzerland: snapshot of the early theridomyid radiation1
- Mammalian periotic bones from the Eocene deposits at Hordle, Hampshire1
- Mammals from the Bartonian (middle/late Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin, southern England1
- Les artiodactyles de l'Eocene moyen et superieur d'Europe occidentale; systematique et evolution1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Gesneropithex 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 Gesneropithex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gesneropithex 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 itAmphilemuridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hürzeler 1946