Protylopus stocki
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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.
8 occurrences of Protylopus stocki 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Protylopus stocki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protylopus stocki and its relatives
EoceneWhere Protylopus stocki and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Dyseolemur pacificus5 sites
- Pareumys5 sites
- Proterixoides davisi5 sites
- Simimys simplex5 sites
- Griphomys alecer4 sites
- Protoreodon pumilus4 sites
- Protoreodon walshi4 sites
- Sespedectes singularis4 sites
- Boidae3 sites
- Brontotheriidae3 sites
- Eohaplomys tradux3 sites
- Hesperaletes borineyi3 sites
- Lacertilia3 sites
- Leptoreodon stocki3 sites
- Ourayia3 sites
- Peradectes californicus3 sites
- Protylopus petersoni3 sites
- Protylopus robustus3 sites
- Trionychidae3 sites
- Amynodon2 sites
- Amynodon advenus2 sites
- Anguidae2 sites
- Batodonoides powayensis2 sites
- Ischyromyidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Protylopus stocki, 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- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California3
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Middle Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County, California2
- Biostratigraphy of Uintan and Duchesnean land mammal assemblages from the Middle Member of the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California1
Each of the 8 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 Protylopus stocki 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 Protylopus stocki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protylopus stocki 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.
Keep going
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