Hesperaletes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TapiroideaPBDB
- 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 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 37 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Hesperaletes 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
18 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
6 formations
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group9
- Santiago Formation4
- Sespe Formation1
- Mission Valley Formation1
- Stadium Formation · Poway Group1
- Pomerado Formation1
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The named rock units Hesperaletes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hesperaletes and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hesperaletes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
122 taxa- Patriolestes novaceki7 sites
- Metanoiamys agorus5 sites
- Pareumys5 sites
- Proterixoides davisi5 sites
- Simimys simplex5 sites
- Crypholestes vaughni4 sites
- Dyseolemur pacificus4 sites
- Microparamys woodi4 sites
- Ourayia4 sites
- Peradectes californicus4 sites
- Protoreodon walshi4 sites
- Protylopus stocki4 sites
- Sespedectes singularis4 sites
- Batodonoides powayensis3 sites
- Centetodon3 sites
- Eohaplomys tradux3 sites
- Leptoreodon3 sites
- Metanoiamys3 sites
- Metarhinus pater3 sites
- Miacis hookwayi3 sites
- Protoreodon pumilus3 sites
- Saniwa ensidens3 sites
- Sciuravus powayensis3 sites
- Achaenodon robustus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Hesperaletes, 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
2 references- Hesperaletes (Mammalia : Perissodactyla), a new tapiroid from the middle Eocene of southern California17
- Eocene and Oligocene mammals from the Gravelly Range of Southwest Montana1
Each of the 18 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 content0
No picture of Hesperaletes 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 Hesperaletes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperaletes 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 itTapiroidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Colbert 2006