Eozygodactylus americanus

N. Adam Smith, Aj M. DeBee and Julia A. Clarke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- EozygodactylusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Eozygodactylus americanus 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
1 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 Eozygodactylus americanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eozygodactylus americanus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eozygodactylus americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Amia fragosa1 site
- Amia uintaensis1 site
- Atractosteus simplex1 site
- Bahndwivici ammoskius1 site
- Bechleja rostrata1 site
- Chelydridae1 site
- Coraciiformes1 site
- Crossopholis magnicaudatus1 site
- Diplomystus dentatus1 site
- Echmatemys1 site
- Eohiodon falcatus1 site
- Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus1 site
- Gallinuloides1 site
- Goniobasis1 site
- Heliobatis radians1 site
- Knightia eocaena1 site
- Lambdotherium1 site
- Limnofregata hasegawai1 site
- Paakniwatavis grandei1 site
- Paleoamphiuma tetradactylum1 site
- Pantolestidae1 site
- Procambarus primaevus1 site
- Pseudocrypturus cercanaxius1 site
- Saniwa ensidens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eozygodactylus americanus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Eozygodactylus americanus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- N. Adam Smith, Aj M. DeBee and Julia A. Clarke
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eozygodactylus americanus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
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What may have been alongside itEozygodactylus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weidig 2010