Smilodectes gracilis

Smilodectes gracilis

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SmilodectesPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 5.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 17 of 17 occurrencesEocene51–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51.6 Mya45.4 Mya

17 occurrences of Smilodectes gracilis 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

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

Bridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.37°N, 109.82°WGreen River — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 42.45°N, 108.60°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WAycross — 44.30°N, 109.00°W

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The named rock units Smilodectes gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Smilodectes gracilis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Smilodectes gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

177 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Smilodectes gracilis, 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

10 references

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 content2

Picture of Smilodectes gracilis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itSmilodectes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1871)