Haplomylus palustris

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HaplomylusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Macroscelidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 1.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 57.5 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Haplomylus palustris on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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 Haplomylus palustris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Haplomylus palustris and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Haplomylus palustris and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Phenacodus intermedius3 sites
- Dillerlemur pagei2 sites
- Ectocion osbornianus2 sites
- Acritoparamys atavus1 site
- Amia basiloides1 site
- Apheliscus nitidus1 site
- Aphronorus1 site
- Arctocyon nexus1 site
- Carpolestes nigridens1 site
- Chamops segnis1 site
- Chiromyoides potior1 site
- Chriacus1 site
- Didymictis dellensis1 site
- Dipsalidictis krausei1 site
- Dissacus1 site
- Ectoganus lobdelli1 site
- Labidolemur kayi1 site
- Leipsanolestes siegfriedti1 site
- Microsyopidae1 site
- Opisthotriton1 site
- Palaeosinopa1 site
- Peradectes1 site
- Phenacodaptes sabulosus1 site
- Phenacodus vortmani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Haplomylus palustris, 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
2 references- New species of Apheliscus, Haplomylus, and Hyopsodus (Mammalia, Condylarthra) from the late Paleocene of southern Montana and early Eocene of northwestern Wyoming2
- The Tiffanian Land-Mammal Age (middle and late Paleocene) in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Haplomylus palustris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Haplomylus palustris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHaplomylus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gingerich 1994