Aepinacodon deflectus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AepinacodonPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aepinacodon deflectus 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aepinacodon deflectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aepinacodon deflectus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aepinacodon deflectus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Aepinacodon americanus1 site
- Allops marshi1 site
- Apternodus mediaevus1 site
- Archaeotherium scotti1 site
- Brachyrhynchocyon dodgei1 site
- Brontops robustus1 site
- Brontotheriidae1 site
- Daphoenus1 site
- Dinictis felina1 site
- Hesperocyon gregarius1 site
- Hoplophoneus oharrai1 site
- Hyaenodon horridus1 site
- Hyaenodon montanus1 site
- Hypertragulidae1 site
- Hyracodon priscidens1 site
- Leptictis dakotensis1 site
- Megacerops curtus1 site
- Menops serotinus1 site
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii1 site
- Mesohippus bairdi1 site
- Mesohippus exoletus1 site
- Miohippus grandis1 site
- Mustelavus priscus1 site
- Parictis major1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aepinacodon deflectus, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Aepinacodon deflectus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aepinacodon deflectus 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 itAepinacodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1890)