Barytherium grave

DiBgd · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BarytheriumPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Proboscidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Proboscidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Barytherium grave 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 occurrencesThese 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 Barytherium grave has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Barytherium grave and its relatives
EoceneWhere Barytherium grave and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Moeritherium lyonsi3 sites
- Aetobatus1 site
- Andrewsemys libyca1 site
- Apterodon macrognathus1 site
- Apterodon saghensis1 site
- Arsinoitherium zitteli1 site
- Bothriogenys1 site
- Bothriogenys gorringei1 site
- Bunohyrax fajumensis1 site
- Bunohyrax major1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Crocodylus megarhinus1 site
- Dacquemys paleomorpha1 site
- Dyrosaurus1 site
- Eogavialis gavialoides1 site
- Eremopezus eocaenus1 site
- Fajumia1 site
- Geniohyus mirus1 site
- Gigantochersina ammon1 site
- Gigantophis garstini1 site
- Hyaenodon1 site
- Lates1 site
- Megalohyrax eocaenus1 site
- Megalohyrax minor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Barytherium grave, 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
4 references- New records of terrestrial mammals from the upper Eocene Qasr el Sagha Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt1
- Nouvelles récoltes de serpents fossiles dans l’Éocène Supérieur du désert Libyque1
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt1
- The topography and geology of the Fayum Province of Egypt1
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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Barytherium grave
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- DiBgd
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Barytherium grave · NHMUK:PAL:PV M 84016
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBarytherium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Andrews 1901