Esthonyx

Esthonyx

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EsthonychinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Tillodontia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Tillodontia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 51.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 45.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 3 of 306 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 303 of 306 occurrencesEocene61–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 28 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 32 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 32 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 32 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 32 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 32 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 32 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 32 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 32 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 11 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya51.1 Mya61.4 Mya45.4 Mya

306 occurrences of Esthonyx 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

306 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

13 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.72°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.57°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.33°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.39°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.61°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.20°N, 110.50°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.78°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.20°N, 108.20°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WLas Tetas de Cabra — 28.68°N, 114.08°WIndian Meadows — 43.20°N, 108.20°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ECambay Shale — 21.40°N, 73.08°E

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The named rock units Esthonyx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Esthonyx and its relatives

Eocene

Where Esthonyx and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

694 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 296 sites for Esthonyx, and this reads 240 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

43 references

Each of the 306 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. 31 further references are 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 content2

Picture of Esthonyx

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1874