Herpetotherium

Herpetotherium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HerpetotheriidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Herpetotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 232 occurrencesEocene — about 164 of 232 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 49 of 232 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 232 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 11 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 12 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 12 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 12 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 14 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 14 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 14 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 14 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 10 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 12 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 11 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 10 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51.1 Mya18.5 Mya56.8 Mya15.5 Mya

232 occurrences of Herpetotherium 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

232 occurrences

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

43 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.13°N, 110.13°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.70°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WRenova — 45.00°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WSespe — 33.73°N, 117.72°WSespe — 33.60°N, 117.61°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.74°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.76°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WSantiago — 33.40°N, 117.51°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WJohn Day — 44.60°N, 119.62°WJohn Day — 45.08°N, 119.87°WJohn Day — 44.55°N, 119.63°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WParachucla — 30.20°N, 82.80°WParachucla — 30.00°N, 82.60°WHarrison — 42.80°N, 100.80°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.77°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.73°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WCook Ranch — 45.00°N, 112.80°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°W

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The named rock units Herpetotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Herpetotherium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Herpetotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,566 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 194 sites for Herpetotherium, 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

59 references

Each of the 232 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. 47 further references are not listed. 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 Herpetotherium

Credit
NPS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Herpetotherium 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 itHerpetotheriidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1873