Dilophodon
No picture of Dilophodon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dilophodon itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Dilophodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TapiridaePBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Tapiridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tapiridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Dilophodon 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
6 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
5 formations
- Washakie Formation2
- Wasatch Formation1
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Tepee Trail Formation1
- Wiggins Formation1
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The named rock units Dilophodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dilophodon and its relatives
EoceneWhere Dilophodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Epihippus gracilis4 sites
- Omomyidae3 sites
- Amynodon advenus2 sites
- Baptemys wyomingensis2 sites
- Dichobunidae2 sites
- Echmatemys stevensoniana2 sites
- Eobasileus cornutus2 sites
- Eomyidae2 sites
- Erinaceidae2 sites
- Harpagolestes2 sites
- Herpetotherium innominatum2 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti2 sites
- Hyopsodus uintensis2 sites
- Leptictidae2 sites
- Metarhinus2 sites
- Microparamys dubius2 sites
- Microsyops annectens2 sites
- Notharctus robustior2 sites
- Nyctitherium2 sites
- Paramys copei2 sites
- Protoreodon pumilus2 sites
- Rhinocerotoidea2 sites
- Sphenocoelus uintensis2 sites
- Triplopus implicatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dilophodon, 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
6 references- A new species of cf. Dilophodon (Mammalia; Perissodactyla) from the early Bridgerian of southwestern Wyoming1
- Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bridgerian-Uintan Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming1
- Magnetic stratigraphy, sedimentology, and mammalian faunas of the early Uintan Washakie Formation, Sand Wash Basin, northwestern Colorado1
- Paleontology and Correlation of the Eocene Tepee Trail and Wiggins Formations in the North Fork of Owl Creek Area, Southeastern Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming1
- Mammals of the Swift Current Creek Local Fauna (Eocene: Uintan), Saskatchewan1
- Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance, Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming1
Each of the 6 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 Dilophodon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Dilophodon itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 Dilophodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dilophodon 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.
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What may have been alongside itTapiridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott 1883