Apheliscus wapitiensis
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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.
4 occurrences of Apheliscus wapitiensis 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
4 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 wapitiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apheliscus wapitiensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Apheliscus wapitiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Allognathosuchus3 sites
- Cantius mckennai3 sites
- Cardiolophus radinskyi3 sites
- Diacodexis metsiacus3 sites
- Haplomylus speirianus3 sites
- Acritoparamys atwateri2 sites
- Arfia shoshoniensis2 sites
- Coryphodon eocaenus2 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus2 sites
- Esthonyx spatularius2 sites
- Homogalax protapirinus2 sites
- Hyopsodus loomisi2 sites
- Labidolemur kayi2 sites
- Miacis exiguus2 sites
- Palaeictops bicuspis2 sites
- Sifrhippus grangeri2 sites
- Tetonius matthewi2 sites
- Viverravus acutus2 sites
- Acritoparamys atavus1 site
- Apheliscus chydaeus1 site
- Arctodontomys wilsoni1 site
- Arenahippus aemulor1 site
- Axestemys byssinus1 site
- Bownomomys americanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Apheliscus wapitiensis, 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
2 references- Stratigraphy and mammalian paleontology of the McCullough Peaks, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for biochronology, basin development, and community reorganization across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary3
- New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification1
Each of the 4 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 wapitiensis 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 wapitiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apheliscus wapitiensis 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. (Van Valen 1967)