Aycrossia lovei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AycrossiaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Omomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Aycrossia lovei 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Aycrossia lovei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aycrossia lovei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aycrossia lovei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Apatemys bellulus3 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus3 sites
- Orohippus3 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus2 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium2 sites
- Macrocranion2 sites
- Microsyops elegans2 sites
- Palaeictops bridgeri2 sites
- Paramyidae2 sites
- Reithroparamys delicatissimus2 sites
- Scenopagus edenensis2 sites
- Adapisoricidae1 site
- Alveojunctus minutus1 site
- Anaptomorphini1 site
- Bathyopsis1 site
- Bunophorus sinclairi1 site
- Coryphodon1 site
- Didelphodontinae1 site
- Elwynella oreas1 site
- Eotitanops borealis1 site
- Helaletes nanus1 site
- Heptodon calciculus1 site
- Herpetotheriidae1 site
- Herpetotherium innominatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aycrossia lovei, 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- Geology, Paleontology, and Correlation of Eocene Volcaniclastic Rocks, Southeast Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming2
- 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 Basin1
Each of the 3 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 Aycrossia lovei
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Aycrossia lovei 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAycrossia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bown 1979)