Triplopus

Triplopus is a genus of perissodactyl, possibly a hyracodont, from the Uinta Formation. Some species formerly assigned to Triplopus have been assigned to Eotrigonias and Hyrachyus in the past, though this is disputed. Triplopus was likely a cursorial browser, similar to other hyracodonts.

Triplopus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyracodontidaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Hyracodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Hyracodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesEocene — about 45 of 45 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 45 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39.7 Mya – 37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

45 occurrences of Triplopus 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

45 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

15 formations

Uinta — 40.07°N, 109.28°WUinta — 40.10°N, 110.20°WUinta — 40.15°N, 109.62°WUinta — 40.17°N, 109.93°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.70°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.30°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.41°N, 108.39°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WSantiago — 33.13°N, 117.31°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WIrtysh River — 47.48°N, 85.88°EDell Beds — 45.00°N, 112.80°WColmena Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WChisos — 29.20°N, 103.20°WChakpaktas — 48.00°N, 84.00°ELaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WIrdin Manha — 42.63°N, 111.35°ELizhuan — 32.46°N, 114.05°EShara Murum — 42.04°N, 111.53°E

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The named rock units Triplopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triplopus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Triplopus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Triplopus, 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

25 references

Each of the 45 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. 13 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 Triplopus

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

No 3D scan of Triplopus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1880