Herpetotheriidae

Herpetotheriidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MarsupialiaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 18 of 512 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 26 of 512 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 315 of 512 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 114 of 512 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 39 of 512 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 6 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 12 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 14 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 13 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 18 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 23 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 31 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 27 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 27 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 28 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 30 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 22 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 52 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 52 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 30 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 18 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 19 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 20 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 22 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 12 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 11 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya13.82 Mya73 Mya10 Mya

512 occurrences of Herpetotheriidae 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

512 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

107 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.13°N, 110.13°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WRenova — 45.00°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.70°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.76°WBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°WBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.55°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.74°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WSespe — 33.73°N, 117.72°WSespe — 33.60°N, 117.61°WPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°EDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WWittering — 50.82°N, 1.18°WWittering — 50.94°N, 1.33°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WAycross — 43.90°N, 110.80°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WJohn Day — 44.60°N, 119.62°WJohn Day — 45.08°N, 119.87°WJohn Day — 44.55°N, 119.63°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.59°WHeadon Hill — 50.67°N, 1.54°WHeadon Hill — 50.72°N, 1.22°W

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The named rock units Herpetotheriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 83 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 126 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Herpetotheriidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Herpetotheriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,626 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 365 sites for Herpetotheriidae, 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

175 references

Each of the 512 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. 163 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 content1

Picture of Herpetotheriidae

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 Herpetotheriidae 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMarsupialia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Trouessart 1879)