Hypertragulus heikeni
No picture of Hypertragulus heikeni 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 Hypertragulus heikeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HypertragulusPBDB
- Diet
- frugivorePBDB, for Hypertragulidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Hypertragulidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 39.7 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hypertragulus heikeni 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
2 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 Hypertragulus heikeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hypertragulus heikeni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hypertragulus heikeni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Protoreodon petersoni2 sites
- Aclistomycter middletoni1 site
- Agriochoerus maximus1 site
- Amynodontopsis bodei1 site
- Bathygenys alpha1 site
- Brontops brachycephalus1 site
- Duchesneodus uintensis1 site
- Hyaenodontidae1 site
- Hyracodon1 site
- Jaywilsonomys ojinagaensis1 site
- Leptomeryx1 site
- Lysinoe breedlovei1 site
- Merycoidodon1 site
- Mesohippus1 site
- Mytonomys gaitania1 site
- Mytonomys robustus1 site
- Pareumys pintoensis1 site
- Rhinocerotidae1 site
- Soricoidea1 site
- Testudines1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hypertragulus heikeni, 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- Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Agua Fria-Green Valley Areas1
- A review of the early and middle Tertiary mammal faunas of Mexico1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hypertragulus heikeni 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 Hypertragulus heikeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hypertragulus heikeni 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 itHypertragulus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ferrusquia-Villafranca 1969