Chlororhysis
Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
- TeilhardininaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Omomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae
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.
3 occurrences of Chlororhysis 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Chlororhysis 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.
Chlororhysis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Chlororhysis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Absarokius abbotti2 sites
- Cantius nunienus2 sites
- Diacodexis2 sites
- Hexacodus pelodes2 sites
- Hyopsodus wortmani2 sites
- Meniscotherium chamense2 sites
- Ambloctonus major1 site
- Anemorhysis sublettensis1 site
- Apatemys bellulus1 site
- Arpadosaurus gazinorum1 site
- Bunophorus macropternus1 site
- Coryphodon lobatus1 site
- Coryphodon radians1 site
- Dawsonomys woodi1 site
- Didymictis altidens1 site
- Entomolestes1 site
- Equidae1 site
- Esthonyx acutidens1 site
- Gazinocyon vulpeculus1 site
- Glyptosaurus1 site
- Heptodon1 site
- Heptodon calciculus1 site
- Heptodon posticus1 site
- Hexacodus uintensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chlororhysis, 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- Description of new skeletal remains of the early Eocene anaptomorphine primate Absarokius (Omomyidae) and a discussion about its adaptive profile1
- Reassessment of Some Early Eocene Omomyidae, with Description of a New Genus and Three New Species1
- A Further Study Of The Lower Eocene Mammalian Faunas Of Southwestern Wyoming1
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. 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 content1
Picture of Chlororhysis
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chlororhysis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTeilhardinina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gazin 1958