Miacis deutschi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiacisPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Miacis
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
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.
10 occurrences of Miacis deutschi 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Miacis deutschi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Miacis deutschi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Miacis deutschi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Sifrhippus grangeri7 sites
- Arfia shoshoniensis6 sites
- Cantius mckennai6 sites
- Cardiolophus radinskyi6 sites
- Diacodexis metsiacus6 sites
- Haplomylus speirianus6 sites
- Hyopsodus loomisi6 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani6 sites
- Coryphodon eocaenus5 sites
- Thryptacodon antiquus5 sites
- Viverravus acutus5 sites
- Allognathosuchus4 sites
- Apheliscus chydaeus4 sites
- Arctodontomys wilsoni4 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus4 sites
- Homogalax protapirinus4 sites
- Lacertilia4 sites
- Oxyaena gulo4 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius4 sites
- Prototomus martis4 sites
- Wyolestes apheles4 sites
- Arenahippus aemulor3 sites
- Didymictis protenus3 sites
- Dissacus praenuntius3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Miacis deutschi, 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
4 references- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary6
- Paleocene-Eocene faunal zones and a preliminary analysis of Laramide structural deformation in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming2
- Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming1
- New Wa-0 mammalian fauna from Castle Gardens in the southeastern Bighorn Basin1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Miacis deutschi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Miacis deutschi 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 itMiacis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gingerich 1983