Hesperopetes blacki
No picture of Hesperopetes blacki 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 Hesperopetes blacki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HesperopetesPBDB
- Diet
- granivore, frugivorePBDB, for Sciuridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Sciuridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hesperopetes blacki 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
2 occurrencesThese 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.
Hesperopetes blacki and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Hesperopetes blacki and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Ansomys cyanotephrus2 sites
- Hesperopetes jamesi2 sites
- Agnotocastor1 site
- Agriochoeridae1 site
- Allomys1 site
- Altasciurus clausulus1 site
- Campestrallomys dawsonae1 site
- Campestrallomys siouxensis1 site
- Castoridae1 site
- Cedromus wilsoni1 site
- Cricetidae1 site
- Diceratherium annectens1 site
- Diceratherium armatum1 site
- Disallomys intermedius1 site
- Disallomys robustus1 site
- Domnina1 site
- Douglassciurus sapphirus1 site
- Downsimus1 site
- Elomeryx garbanii1 site
- Entelodontidae1 site
- Eomyidae1 site
- Eumys brachyodus1 site
- Eumys parvidens1 site
- Eutypomys wilsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hesperopetes blacki, 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- Mammals from the Blue Ash Local Fauna (Late Oligocene), South Dakota. Rodentia, Part 3: Family Sciuridae1
- A new genus of squirrel (Rodentia, Sciuridae) from the mid-Cenozoic of North America1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Hesperopetes blacki 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 Hesperopetes blacki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hesperopetes blacki 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 itHesperopetes through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Emry and Korth 2007