Deperetellidae

Deperetellidae is an extinct family of herbivorous odd-toed ungulates containing the genera Bahinolophus, Deperetella, Irenolophus, and Teleolophus. Their closest living relatives are tapirs. Deperetellids are known from the Middle Eocene deposits of China, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar.

Deperetellidae

Wei Gao and Nicole Wong (photos), Yong Xu (drawings) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
TapiroideaPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Tapiroidea
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Tapiroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 23 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEocene — about 23 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

23 occurrences of Deperetellidae 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

23 occurrences

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

12 formations

Pondaung — 21.77°N, 94.65°EPondaung — 21.76°N, 94.64°EPondaung — 21.71°N, 94.81°EPondaung — 21.72°N, 94.68°EPondaung — 22.03°N, 94.50°EHedi — 34.80°N, 111.91°EHedi — 35.03°N, 111.80°EHuangzhuang — 35.60°N, 117.03°EDongjun — 23.58°N, 107.23°EHeti — 35.03°N, 111.80°EHonghe — 34.56°N, 109.39°ELushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EIrdin Manha — 43.33°N, 111.76°EKholboldchi — 45.18°N, 100.67°EShara Murum — 42.04°N, 111.53°EErgilin Dzo — 44.00°N, 111.00°EUlan Shireh — 42.52°N, 110.97°E

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The named rock units Deperetellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Deperetellidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Deperetellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Deperetellidae, 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

13 references

Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Deperetellidae

Credit
Wei Gao and Nicole Wong (photos), Yong Xu (drawings)
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Deperetellidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTapiroidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Radinsky 1965