Hemipsalodon grandis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemipsalodonPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 710 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
5 occurrences of Hemipsalodon grandis 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Hemipsalodon grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hemipsalodon grandis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hemipsalodon grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
142 taxa- Adjidaumo minimus2 sites
- Archaeotherium coarctatum2 sites
- Brachyrhynchocyon dodgei2 sites
- Brontotheriidae2 sites
- Centetodon magnus2 sites
- Daphoenictis tedfordi2 sites
- Heptacodon2 sites
- Hyaenodon horridus2 sites
- Leptomeryx esulcatus2 sites
- Leptomeryx mammifer2 sites
- Leptomeryx semicinctus2 sites
- Mesohippus westoni2 sites
- Parictis parvus2 sites
- Peltosaurus2 sites
- Subhyracodon occidentalis2 sites
- Toxotherium hunteri2 sites
- Trionyx leucopotamicus2 sites
- <Novacek leptictid>1 site
- Achaenodon fremdi1 site
- Agriochoerus1 site
- Alligatoridae1 site
- Alligatoroidea1 site
- Ambystoma tiheni1 site
- Amiinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hemipsalodon grandis, 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- Stratigraphy and vertebrate faunas of the Bridgerian-Duchesnean Clarno Formation, north-central Oregon1
- Eocene-Oligocene faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan1
- Mammalian paleontology and geology of the Yoder Member, Chadron Formation, east-central Wyoming1
- Vertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy, and biostratigraphy of Eocene Galisteo Formation, north-central New Mexico1
- On vertebrata from the Tertiary and Cretaceous rocks of the North West Territory: The species from the Oligocene or Lower Miocene beds of the Cypress Hills1
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 content1

Picture of Hemipsalodon grandis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- National Park Service
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hemipsalodon grandis 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 itHemipsalodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1885