Microchoerus

Microchoerus is a genus of extinct microchoerine primate from Late Eocene Europe.

Microchoerus

Geological Society of London · Public Domain · 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
MicrochoerinaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Omomyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae

Time the record covers

At least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 26 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesOligocene41–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya33.9 Mya41.5 Mya26.8 Mya

27 occurrences of Microchoerus 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

27 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

9 formations

Perrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WCalcaire de Saint-Ouen — 49.13°N, 3.35°ECollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°ECreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°WVillarrosano — 40.58°N, 1.27°WLower Headon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.53°W

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The named rock units Microchoerus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microchoerus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Microchoerus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

406 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Microchoerus, 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

13 references

Each of the 27 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. 1 further reference is 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 Microchoerus

Credit
Geological Society of London
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Microchoerus 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.

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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What may have been alongside itMicrochoerinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1844