Protylopus pearsonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtylopusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Oromerycidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Oromerycidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 37 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Protylopus pearsonensis 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
5 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 Protylopus pearsonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protylopus pearsonensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Protylopus pearsonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Simimeryx hudsoni5 sites
- Amynodontopsis bodei4 sites
- Protoreodon pacificus4 sites
- Leptoreodon stocki3 sites
- Sespedectes singularis3 sites
- Testudines3 sites
- Testudinidae3 sites
- Chumashius balchi2 sites
- Duchesneodus uintensis2 sites
- Griphomys alecer2 sites
- Proterixoides davisi2 sites
- Trionychidae2 sites
- Anguidae1 site
- Anura1 site
- Boavus occidentalis1 site
- Boidae1 site
- Didelphidae1 site
- Eotylopus1 site
- Hyaenodon venturae1 site
- Hyaenodon vetus1 site
- Hyracodontidae1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
- Leptoreodon pusillus1 site
- Microparamys tricus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Protylopus pearsonensis, 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
2 references- Biostratigraphy of Uintan and Duchesnean land mammal assemblages from the Middle Member of the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California4
- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Protylopus pearsonensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protylopus pearsonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProtylopus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Golz 1976