Thisbemys

Thisbemys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParamyidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Paramyidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Paramyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Paramyidae

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 39.7 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEocene — about 54 of 54 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51.1 Mya45.9 Mya56.5 Mya39.2 Mya

54 occurrences of Thisbemys 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

54 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

13 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.28°WUinta — 40.17°N, 109.93°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WGreen River — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WWiggins — 43.70°N, 108.70°W

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The named rock units Thisbemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thisbemys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Thisbemys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

591 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Thisbemys, 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

21 references

Each of the 54 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Thisbemys

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Thisbemys was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itParamyidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1959