Diacodexis gigasei
No picture of Diacodexis gigasei was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Diacodexis gigasei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiacodexisPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Diacodexis
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Diacodexis
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Diacodexis gigasei 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
- Tienen Formation · Landen Group2
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The named rock units Diacodexis gigasei 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.
Diacodexis gigasei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Diacodexis gigasei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Arfia gingerichi2 sites
- Asiatosuchus depressifrons2 sites
- Dormaalocyon latouri2 sites
- Euromys2 sites
- Gracilocyon solei2 sites
- Landenodon woutersi2 sites
- Macrocranion vandebroeki2 sites
- Peratherium constans2 sites
- Phenacodus2 sites
- Plesiadapis tricuspidens2 sites
- Pseudoparamys2 sites
- Teilhardina belgica2 sites
- Trionychidae2 sites
- Adapisoricidae1 site
- Allognathosuchus woutersi1 site
- Amia1 site
- Amphiperatherium1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Anguinae1 site
- Anguini1 site
- Apatemys1 site
- Apatemys teilhardi1 site
- Arcius rougieri1 site
- Argillochelys antiqua1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Diacodexis gigasei, 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- The earliest Eocene mammal fauna of the Erquelinnes Sand Member near the French-Belgian border2
- New material of Diacodexis (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the early Eocene of Southern Europe1
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 content0
No picture of Diacodexis gigasei was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Diacodexis gigasei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDiacodexis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1996