Herpetotherium knighti

No picture of Herpetotherium knighti was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Herpetotherium knighti itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Herpetotherium knighti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 37 Mya.

Eocene — about 65 of 65 occurrencesEocene52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45.9 Mya39.7 Mya51.6 Mya36.5 Mya

65 occurrences of Herpetotherium knighti 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

65 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

Friars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.08°N, 110.10°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WSantiago — 33.40°N, 117.51°WSantiago — 33.22°N, 117.29°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WTepee Trail — 43.70°N, 108.70°WDell Beds — 45.00°N, 112.80°WKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.68°W

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The named rock units Herpetotherium knighti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Herpetotherium knighti and its relatives

Eocene

Where Herpetotherium knighti and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

456 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Herpetotherium knighti, 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

8 references

Each of the 65 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 Herpetotherium knighti was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Herpetotherium knighti itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Herpetotherium knighti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Herpetotherium knighti was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itHerpetotherium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McGrew et al. 1959)