Uintasorex

Uintasorex is a genus of primate which lived in North America during the Eocene epoch. Fossils belonging to Uintasorex have been dated to the Bridgerian and Uintan stages, roughly 50.3 to 42 million years ago.

Uintasorex

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesEocene — about 64 of 64 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–45 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 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51.1 Mya39.7 Mya56.5 Mya36.5 Mya

64 occurrences of Uintasorex 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

64 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

16 formations

Friars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WMission Valley — 32.90°N, 117.10°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WStadium — 32.78°N, 117.15°WStadium — 32.80°N, 117.12°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°W"Sheep Pass" — 39.00°N, 114.10°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WTepee Trail — 43.20°N, 108.20°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.68°W

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The named rock units Uintasorex 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.

Uintasorex and its relatives

Eocene

Where Uintasorex and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

547 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Uintasorex, 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

23 references

Each of the 64 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. 11 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 Uintasorex

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Uintasorex 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.

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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What may have been alongside itUintasoricinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1909