Leptoreodon marshi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptoreodonPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Protoceratidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Protoceratidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Leptoreodon marshi 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
10 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
5 formations
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group4
- Uinta Formation3
- Dell Beds Formation1
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Devil's Graveyard Formation1
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The named rock units Leptoreodon marshi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptoreodon marshi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Leptoreodon marshi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
220 taxa- Amynodon advenus5 sites
- Brontotheriidae4 sites
- Epihippus gracilis4 sites
- Ourayia uintensis4 sites
- Protoreodon parvus4 sites
- Protoreodon pumilus4 sites
- Sciuravus powayensis4 sites
- Bunomeryx montanus3 sites
- Isectolophus annectens3 sites
- Leptotragulus proavus3 sites
- Metarhinus pater3 sites
- Microparamys minutus3 sites
- Miocyon scotti3 sites
- Pareumys grangeri3 sites
- Patriolestes novaceki3 sites
- Procynodictis vulpiceps3 sites
- Thisbemys uintensis3 sites
- Triplopus obliquidens3 sites
- Agriochoeridae2 sites
- Antiacodon venustus2 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Baena arenosa2 sites
- Centetodon aztecus2 sites
- Colodon kayi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Leptoreodon marshi, 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
5 references- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California4
- Magnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the middle Eocene Uinta Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah3
- Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transition, southwestern Montana1
- Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Agua Fria-Green Valley Areas1
- Mammals of the Swift Current Creek Local Fauna (Eocene: Uintan), Saskatchewan1
Each of the 10 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 content1
Picture of Leptoreodon marshi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Leptoreodon marshi 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 itLeptoreodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wortman 1898