Simimeryx
No picture of Simimeryx 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 Simimeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PraetragulidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- 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.
17 occurrences of Simimeryx 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
17 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Simimeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Simimeryx and its relatives
EoceneWhere Simimeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Sespedectes singularis8 sites
- Protoreodon pacificus7 sites
- Proterixoides davisi6 sites
- Testudines6 sites
- Amynodontopsis bodei5 sites
- Microparamys tricus5 sites
- Protylopus pearsonensis5 sites
- Simimys simplex5 sites
- Chumashius balchi4 sites
- Duchesneodus uintensis4 sites
- Griphomys alecer4 sites
- Leptoreodon stocki4 sites
- Protoreodon pumilus4 sites
- Trionychidae4 sites
- Anguidae3 sites
- Pareumys milleri3 sites
- Testudinidae3 sites
- Triplopus woodi3 sites
- Amynodon advenus2 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Boavus occidentalis2 sites
- Boidae2 sites
- Dyseolemur pacificus2 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Simimeryx, 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- Biostratigraphy of Uintan and Duchesnean land mammal assemblages from the Middle Member of the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California11
- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California3
- Additional Uintan and Duchesnean (Middle and Late Eocene) mammals from the Sespe Formation, Simi Valley, California1
- The Eocene Vertebrates of the Uinta Basin, Utah1
- List of species and description of new material from the Duchesne River Oligocene, Uinta Basin, Utah1
Each of the 17 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 Simimeryx 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 Simimeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Simimeryx 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 itPraetragulidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stock 1934