Gypsonictops illuminatus

Gypsonictops illuminatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GypsonictopsPBDB
Diet
omnivore, frugivorePBDB, for Gypsonictops
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Gypsonictopidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 27 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

27 occurrences of Gypsonictops illuminatus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

27 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

Hell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.65°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 45.40°N, 105.60°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WScollard — 51.80°N, 113.00°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.20°W

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

Gypsonictops illuminatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Gypsonictops illuminatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Gypsonictops illuminatus, 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

8 references

Each of the 27 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

Picture of Gypsonictops illuminatus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Gypsonictops illuminatus 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 itGypsonictops through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lillegraven 1969