Hyracolestes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SarcodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
7 occurrences of Hyracolestes on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 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.
Found in
5 formations
- Nomogen Formation2
- Lignites de Soissonais Formation2
- Doumu Formation1
- Khashat Formation1
- Naran Bulak Formation1
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The named rock units Hyracolestes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hyracolestes and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Hyracolestes and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Palaeostylops iturus3 sites
- Pseudictops lophiodon3 sites
- Sarcodon pygmaeus3 sites
- Viverravus3 sites
- Allaeochelys2 sites
- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
- Apatemys mutiniacus2 sites
- Apatemys sigogneaui2 sites
- Archaeonycteris brailloni2 sites
- Arcius fuscus2 sites
- Avenius amatorum2 sites
- Axestemys vittata2 sites
- Bunophorus2 sites
- Calamagras gallicus2 sites
- Cantius savagei2 sites
- Diacodexis varleti2 sites
- Didelphodus2 sites
- Dissacus serratus2 sites
- Dunnophis matronensis2 sites
- Eolacerta2 sites
- Eomylus bayanulanensis2 sites
- Heterohyus2 sites
- Icaronycteris menui2 sites
- Lambdopsalis bulla2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Hyracolestes, 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
6 references- Deltatheridia, Carnivora, and Condylarthra (Mammalia) of the Early Eocene, Paris Basin, France2
- The Gashatan (late Paleocene) mammal fauna from Subeng, Inner Mongolia1
- Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora1
- Glires (Mammalia) from the Late Paleocene Bayan Ulan Locality of Inner Mongolia1
- Miscellaneous mammalian fossils from the Paleocene of Qianshan Basin, Anhui1
- Fauna and correlation of the Gashato Formation of Mongolia1
Each of the 7 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 Hyracolestes 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 Hyracolestes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hyracolestes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSarcodontidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Granger 1925