Heptacodon occidentale
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeptacodonPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 31.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Heptacodon occidentale on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Heptacodon occidentale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heptacodon occidentale and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Heptacodon occidentale and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aepinacodon americanus1 site
- Archaeotherium mortoni1 site
- Colodon occidentalis1 site
- Daphoenus1 site
- Hoplophoneus occidentalis1 site
- Hoplophoneus primaevus1 site
- Hyaenodon crucians1 site
- Hyaenodon horridus1 site
- Hypertragulus calcaratus1 site
- Hyracodon1 site
- Ischyromys1 site
- Leptomeryx evansi1 site
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii1 site
- Mesohippus bairdi1 site
- Miniochoerus affinis1 site
- Palaeolagus haydeni1 site
- Poebrotherium wilsoni1 site
- Protapirus simplex1 site
- Subhyracodon mitis1 site
- Subhyracodon occidentalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heptacodon occidentale, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Heptacodon occidentale was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Heptacodon occidentale, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heptacodon occidentale 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 itHeptacodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Osborn and Wortman 1894)