Simpsonodus chacensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SimpsonodusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Simpsonodus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Simpsonodus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Simpsonodus chacensis 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
6 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 Simpsonodus chacensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Simpsonodus chacensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Simpsonodus chacensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Diacodexis metsiacus3 sites
- Hyopsodus lysitensis3 sites
- Paramys copei3 sites
- Cantius angulatus2 sites
- Cantius frugivorus2 sites
- Didymictis2 sites
- Esthonyx bisulcatus2 sites
- Heptodon2 sites
- Hyopsodus mentalis2 sites
- Hyracotherium2 sites
- Macrocranion nitens2 sites
- Microsyops latidens2 sites
- Paramys excavatus2 sites
- Prodiacodon tauricinerei2 sites
- <Korth paramyine>1 site
- Ambloctonus sinosus1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Apatemys bellulus1 site
- Bunophorus grangeri1 site
- Cantius abditus1 site
- Copecion brachypternus1 site
- Copelemur tutus1 site
- Coryphodon armatus1 site
- Diacodon alticuspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Simpsonodus chacensis, 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- Early Eocene artiodactyls from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and the Piceance Basin, Colorado5
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
Each of the 6 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 Simpsonodus chacensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Simpsonodus chacensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Simpsonodus chacensis 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 itSimpsonodus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1875)