Ekgmowechashala

Ekgmowechashala is an extinct genus of primate belonging to Adapiformes.

Ekgmowechashala

Uncredited · 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
EkgmowechashalidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 12 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30 Mya18 Mya

12 occurrences of Ekgmowechashala on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

12 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

3 formations

Sharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WJohn Day — 44.55°N, 119.63°W

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

Ekgmowechashala and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Ekgmowechashala and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ekgmowechashala, 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

Each of the 12 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 Ekgmowechashala

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ekgmowechashala 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 itEkgmowechashalidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Macdonald 1963