Vectipithex smithorum

Vectipithex smithorum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VectipithexPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Omomyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38.21 Mya33.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Vectipithex smithorum 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

7 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

4 formations

Bembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.55°WBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°WHeadon Hill — 50.67°N, 1.54°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.59°WLower Headon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.53°WUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°W

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The named rock units Vectipithex smithorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Vectipithex smithorum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Vectipithex smithorum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Vectipithex smithorum, 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

1 reference

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Vectipithex smithorum

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vectipithex smithorum 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 itVectipithex through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hooker and Harrison 2008