Helohyus milleri
No picture of Helohyus milleri 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 Helohyus milleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelohyusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, omnivorePBDB, for Helohyus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Helohyus milleri 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
8 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Helohyus milleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helohyus milleri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Helohyus milleri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Hyopsodus paulus2 sites
- Antiacodon1 site
- Centetodon pulcher1 site
- Helohyus lentus1 site
- Helohyus plicodon1 site
- Hyrachyus eximius1 site
- Hyrachyus modestus1 site
- Microsus cuspidatus1 site
- Nyctitherium curtidens1 site
- Pauromys schaubi1 site
- Peratherium comstocki1 site
- Sciuravidae1 site
- Telmatherium validus1 site
- Uintasorex parvulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Helohyus milleri, 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
2 references- Paleontology and Geology of the Bridger Formation, Southern Green River Basin, Southwestern Wyoming. Part 7. Survey of Bridgerian Artiodactyla, including description of a skull and partial skeleton of Antiacodon pygmaeus7
- A revision of the bunodont artiodactyla of the Middle and Lower Eocene of North America1
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Helohyus milleri 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 Helohyus milleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helohyus milleri 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 itHelohyus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sinclair 1914