Uintatheriinae

Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935); Walter Granger (1872-1941) · Public Domain · 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
- UintatheriidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Dinocerata
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dinocerata
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
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 37.71 Mya.
63 occurrences of Uintatheriinae 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
63 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
17 formations
- Bridger Formation29
- Uinta Formation6
- Wind River Formation5
- Wasatch Formation4
- Washakie Formation3
- Aycross Formation2
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The named rock units Uintatheriinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Uintatheriinae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Uintatheriinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
444 taxa- Uintatherium anceps18 sites
- Bathyopsis fissidens14 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus12 sites
- Hyrachyus eximius11 sites
- Uintatherium11 sites
- Microsyops scottianus10 sites
- Hyrachyus modestus8 sites
- Hyracotherium vasacciense8 sites
- Notharctus robustior8 sites
- Didymictis altidens6 sites
- Heptodon calciculus6 sites
- Hyopsodus6 sites
- Lambdotherium popoagicum6 sites
- Orohippus6 sites
- Paramys copei6 sites
- Viverravus gracilis6 sites
- Vulpavus canavus6 sites
- Apatemys bellulus5 sites
- Bathyopsis5 sites
- Coryphodon5 sites
- Eobasileus cornutus5 sites
- Heptodon posticus5 sites
- Hyrachyus5 sites
- Palaeosyops fontinalis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Uintatheriinae, 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- Revision of the Uintatheres20
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals10
- 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
- Magnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the middle Eocene Uinta Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah3
- Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bridgerian-Uintan Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming2
- Paleontology and Correlation of the Eocene Tepee Trail and Wiggins Formations in the North Fork of Owl Creek Area, Southeastern Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming2
- Fossil Mammalia of the Huerfano Formation, Eocene, of Colorado2
- The geology and paleontology of the Elk Mountain and Tabernacle Butte area, Wyoming2
- Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 2: Apatotheria, Lipotyphla, Carnivoramorpha, Condylartha, Dinocerata, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla1
- New materials of Eocene Dinocerata (Mammalia) from the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia)1
- Basin margins, biodiversity, evolutionary innovation, and the origin of new taxa1
- Middle Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County, California1
Each of the 63 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 Uintatheriinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935); Walter Granger (1872-1941)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Uintatheriinae 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 itUintatheriidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flower 1876