Apheliscus chydaeus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApheliscusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
52 occurrences of Apheliscus chydaeus 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
52 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 Apheliscus chydaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apheliscus chydaeus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Apheliscus chydaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
178 taxa- Sifrhippus grangeri39 sites
- Arfia shoshoniensis22 sites
- Haplomylus speirianus21 sites
- Viverravus acutus21 sites
- Arctodontomys wilsoni20 sites
- Cardiolophus radinskyi20 sites
- Hyopsodus loomisi19 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus18 sites
- Cantius mckennai17 sites
- Diacodexis metsiacus16 sites
- Prototomus phobos16 sites
- Homogalax protapirinus14 sites
- Esthonyx spatularius13 sites
- Thryptacodon antiquus13 sites
- Arenahippus aemulor12 sites
- Coryphodon eocaenus12 sites
- Eucosmodon ultimus12 sites
- Prototomus martis11 sites
- Didymictis protenus10 sites
- Prolimnocyon haematus10 sites
- Arfia zele9 sites
- Didymictis leptomylus9 sites
- Palaeanodon nievelti9 sites
- Phenacodus intermedius9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Apheliscus chydaeus, 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
3 references- New species of Apheliscus, Haplomylus, and Hyopsodus (Mammalia, Condylarthra) from the late Paleocene of southern Montana and early Eocene of northwestern Wyoming36
- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary15
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
Each of the 52 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Apheliscus chydaeus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Apheliscus chydaeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apheliscus chydaeus 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 itApheliscus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gingerich 1994