Hyopsodus minusculus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyopsodusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Hyopsodontidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
60 occurrences of Hyopsodus minusculus 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
60 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
- Bridger Formation44
- Wind River Formation9
- Wasatch Formation2
- Green River Formation2
- Aycross Formation1
- "Middle (?) Eocene Volcaniclastic Sequence" Formation1
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The named rock units Hyopsodus minusculus 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.
Hyopsodus minusculus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hyopsodus minusculus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
249 taxa- Sciuravus nitidus27 sites
- Microsyops elegans24 sites
- Omomys carteri23 sites
- Hyrachyus18 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus15 sites
- Orohippus pumilus15 sites
- Smilodectes mcgrewi14 sites
- Washakius insignis14 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus13 sites
- Notharctus robinsoni12 sites
- Herpetotherium innominatum11 sites
- Microparamys minutus11 sites
- Paramys delicatus11 sites
- Anaptomorphus westi10 sites
- Apatemys bellulus10 sites
- Peradectes chesteri10 sites
- Scenopagus edenensis10 sites
- Uintaparamys parvus10 sites
- Thinocyon velox9 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium8 sites
- Palaeosyops fontinalis8 sites
- Smilodectes gracilis8 sites
- Helaletes nanus7 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Hyopsodus minusculus, 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
13 references- Mammalian Fauna From the Lower Bridger Formation (Bridger A, Early Middle Eocene) of the Southern Green River Basin, Wyoming32
- Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 13. Systematics and phylogenetic pattern of early Eocene Hyopsodus (Mammalia: Condylarthra)8
- Geology and mammalian paleontology of the New Fork-Big Sandy area, Sublette County, Wyoming8
- Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 5. Geology and biostratigraphy of the upper part of the Wind River Formation, northeastern Wind River Basin3
- Magnetostratigraphy across the Wasatchian-Bridgerian boundary (early to middle Eocene) in the western Green River Basin, Wyoming1
- Wapiti Valley Faunas: Early and Middle Eocene Fossil Vertebrates from the North Fork of the Shoshone River, Park County, Wyoming1
- Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna1
- Paleontology and geology of the Bridger Formation, southern Green River Basin, southwestern Wyoming. Part 3. Notes on Hyopsodus1
- Mammalian Faunal Zones of the Bridger Middle Eocene1
- West and Dawson, 19731
- A study of the Eocene condylarthran mammal Hyopsodus1
- The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene1
Each of the 60 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. 1 further reference is 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 content0
No picture of Hyopsodus minusculus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hyopsodus minusculus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hyopsodus minusculus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itHyopsodus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1873