Helaletes intermedius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelaletesPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Tapiroidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tapiroidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Helaletes intermedius 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Helaletes intermedius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Helaletes intermedius and its relatives
EoceneWhere Helaletes intermedius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Hyrachyus eximius2 sites
- Trogosus castoridens2 sites
- Amynodon1 site
- Boverisuchus vorax1 site
- Brontotheriidae1 site
- Eotitanops borealis1 site
- Hyopsodus paulus1 site
- Isectolophidae1 site
- Isectolophus latidens1 site
- Leptictidae1 site
- Limnocyon verus1 site
- Metacheiromys dasypus1 site
- Microsyops annectens1 site
- Notharctus1 site
- Orohippus1 site
- Palaeosyops paludosus1 site
- Palaeosyops robustus1 site
- Patriofelis1 site
- Viverravus sicarius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Helaletes intermedius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals3
- Mammalian fauna of the Middle Eoene Kishenehn Formation, Middle Fork of the Flathead River, Montana1
- Two unusual specimens of Helaletes in the Yale Peabody Museum collections, and some comments on the ancestry of the Tapiridae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia)1
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
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No picture of Helaletes intermedius 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 Helaletes intermedius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helaletes intermedius was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itHelaletes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Osborn et al. 1878)