Haplomeryx

Haplomeryx is an extinct genus of Palaeogene artiodactyls belonging to the family Xiphodontidae. It was endemic to Western Europe and lived from the Middle Eocene up to the earliest Oligocene. Haplomeryx was first established as a genus by the German naturalist Max Schlosser in 1886 based on a molar tooth set from Quercy Phosphorites deposits. Three additional species were erected and classified to the xiphodontid genus while one other species, first recognized in 1822, was tentatively classified to it and remains unresolved in affinity.

No picture of Haplomeryx was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Haplomeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XiphodontidaePBDB
Diet
folivorePBDB, for Xiphodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Xiphodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Xiphodontidae

Time the record covers

At most 7.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 23 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41.5 Mya33.4 Mya

23 occurrences of Haplomeryx 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

23 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

Perrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EPerriere — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°ECollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°E

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The named rock units Haplomeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Haplomeryx and its relatives

Eocene

Where Haplomeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Haplomeryx, 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

7 references

Each of the 23 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 Haplomeryx was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Haplomeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Haplomeryx 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.

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 itXiphodontidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlosser 1886