Uintasorex parvulus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UintasorexPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primates
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Primates
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
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.
17 occurrences of Uintasorex parvulus 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- 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
8 formations
- Wind River Formation5
- Bridger Formation3
- Wagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") Formation3
- Green River Formation2
- Fowkes Formation1
- Aycross Formation1
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The named rock units Uintasorex parvulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Uintasorex parvulus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Uintasorex parvulus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
293 taxa- Herpetotherium innominatum10 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti7 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium7 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus7 sites
- Apatemys bellus6 sites
- Orohippus6 sites
- Centetodon altidens5 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus5 sites
- Knightomys depressus5 sites
- Miacidae5 sites
- Microsyops scottianus5 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum5 sites
- Nyctitherium serotinum5 sites
- Paramys copei5 sites
- Pauromys5 sites
- Phenacodus5 sites
- Acritoparamys francesi4 sites
- Bunophorus sinclairi4 sites
- Centetodon bembicophagus4 sites
- Diacodexis secans4 sites
- Galericinae4 sites
- Hyopsodus uintensis4 sites
- Hyracotherium vasacciense4 sites
- Nyctitherium nitidum4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Uintasorex parvulus, 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
11 references- Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 5. Geology and biostratigraphy of the upper part of the Wind River Formation, northeastern Wind River Basin5
- The paleontology and geology of the Badwater Creek area, central Wyoming3
- Mammalian fauna of the Middle Eoene Kishenehn Formation, Middle Fork of the Flathead River, Montana1
- Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna1
- Middle Eocene marsupials (Mammalia) from northeastern Utah and the mammalian fauna from Powder Wash1
- Geology, Paleontology, and Correlation of Eocene Volcaniclastic Rocks, Southeast Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming1
- Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance, Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming1
- Age and stratigraphic relationships of the Fowkes Formation, Eocene, of southwestern Wyoming and northeastern Utah1
- Uintasoricinae, a new subfamily of early Tertiary mammals (?Primates)1
- The geology and paleontology of the Elk Mountain and Tabernacle Butte area, Wyoming1
- The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene1
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 content1
Picture of Uintasorex parvulus
- 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 parvulus 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 itUintasorex through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1909