Microchoerinae

Microchoerinae is an extinct subfamily of omomyid primates.

Microchoerinae

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OmomyidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Omomyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 113 occurrencesEocene — about 109 of 113 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 113 occurrencesOligocene57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 10 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 10 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 16 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 16 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 16 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 12 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48.07 Mya33.9 Mya56.6 Mya26.7 Mya

113 occurrences of Microchoerinae 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

113 occurrences

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

19 formations

Bembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°WBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.55°WPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°EPerriere — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°ECreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WWittering — 50.76°N, 0.86°WWittering — 50.94°N, 1.33°WBellmunt — 42.17°N, 2.01°EEscanilla — 42.20°N, 0.40°EEscanilla — 42.16°N, 0.04°ECalcaire de Saint-Ouen — 49.13°N, 3.35°EHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WHeadon Hill — 50.67°N, 1.54°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.59°WCollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°ELower Headon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.53°WBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°EVillarrosano — 40.58°N, 1.27°WGhazij — 30.39°N, 69.82°EMazaterón — 41.53°N, 2.12°WHouldjin — 42.00°N, 112.00°EWoolwich — 51.37°N, 0.09°W

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The named rock units Microchoerinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microchoerinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Microchoerinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

912 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Microchoerinae, 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

43 references

Each of the 113 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. 31 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Microchoerinae

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Microchoerinae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lydekker 1887)