Microsyops knightensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrosyopsPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Microsyops knightensis 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
7 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Microsyops knightensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Microsyops knightensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Microsyops knightensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Lambdotherium popoagicum5 sites
- Glyptosaurus sylvestris4 sites
- Absarokius abbotti3 sites
- Apatemys3 sites
- Cantius nunienus3 sites
- Diacodexis3 sites
- Didymictis altidens3 sites
- Hyopsodus wortmani3 sites
- Notharctus venticolus3 sites
- Protorohippus venticolum3 sites
- Trionychidae3 sites
- Vulpavus australis3 sites
- Artimonius nocerai2 sites
- Boverisuchus vorax2 sites
- Bunophorus macropternus2 sites
- Bunophorus sinclairi2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Diplocynodon2 sites
- Emydidae2 sites
- Epoicotheriidae2 sites
- Esthonyx2 sites
- Esthonyx acutidens2 sites
- Esthonyx bisulcatus2 sites
- Gazinocyon vulpeculus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Microsyops knightensis, 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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Basin margins, biodiversity, evolutionary innovation, and the origin of new taxa2
- Stratigraphy, mammalian paleontology, paleoecology, and age correlation of the Wasatch Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming1
- Rare taxa, biostratigraphy, and the Wasatchian-Bridgerian boundary in North America1
- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary1
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 Microsyops knightensis 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 Microsyops knightensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microsyops knightensis 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 itMicrosyops through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gazin 1952)