Harpagolestes uintensis
No picture of Harpagolestes uintensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Harpagolestes uintensis itself, so it was not used. 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 Harpagolestes uintensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HarpagolestesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mesonychidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Mesonychidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Harpagolestes uintensis 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Harpagolestes uintensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Harpagolestes uintensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Harpagolestes uintensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Amynodon advenus4 sites
- Epihippus gracilis4 sites
- Protoreodon parvus3 sites
- Protoreodon petersoni3 sites
- Triplopus obliquidens3 sites
- Uintatherium3 sites
- Achaenodon2 sites
- Amynodon2 sites
- Baena arenosa2 sites
- Bunomeryx montanus2 sites
- Eomoropus amarorum2 sites
- Hadrianus2 sites
- Isectolophus annectens2 sites
- Leptotragulus proavus2 sites
- Mesonyx obtusidens2 sites
- Metarhinus diploconus2 sites
- Metarhinus fluviatilis2 sites
- Miacis2 sites
- Miocyon scotti2 sites
- Mytonomys robustus2 sites
- Procynodictis vulpiceps2 sites
- Protoreodon minor2 sites
- Protoreodon pumilus2 sites
- Sphenocoelus intermedius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Harpagolestes uintensis, 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- First records of two large land mammals in middle Eocene coastal plain strata of Texas2
- The Eocene Vertebrates of the Uinta Basin, Utah2
- First mesonychid from the Clarno Formation (Eocene) of Oregon, USA1
- Magnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the middle Eocene Uinta Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah1
- Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas1
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. 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- Condon Fossil Collection
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Harpagolestes uintensis · uomnh:cfc:36924
No picture of Harpagolestes uintensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Harpagolestes uintensis itself, so it was not used.
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 Harpagolestes uintensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHarpagolestes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scott 1888)