Heterocoryphodon
No picture of Heterocoryphodon 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 Heterocoryphodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoryphodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Pantodonta
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Pantodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Pantodonta
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Heterocoryphodon 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Heterocoryphodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heterocoryphodon and its relatives
EoceneWhere Heterocoryphodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Asiocoryphodon conicus2 sites
- Asiocoryphodon lophodontus1 site
- Asiohyopsodus confuciusi1 site
- Chowliia laoshanensis1 site
- Eomoropus quadridentatus1 site
- Gobiatherium minutum1 site
- Gobiatherium mirificum1 site
- Homogalax1 site
- Homogalax wutuensis1 site
- Hyracodontidae1 site
- Schlosseria magister1 site
- Yimengia yani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heterocoryphodon, 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
2 references- Fossil Mammals from the Early Eocene Wutu Formation of Shandong Province2
- Eocene mammals from the Liguanqiao Basin, Henan, China, and the boundary between the Bumbanian and Arshantan land-mammal "ages"1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Heterocoryphodon 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 Heterocoryphodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterocoryphodon 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 itCoryphodontidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lucas and Tong 1987