Herpetotherium marsupium

Herpetotherium marsupium

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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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 29 of 29 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51.1 Mya39.7 Mya56.5 Mya36.5 Mya

29 occurrences of Herpetotherium marsupium 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

29 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

10 formations

Bridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.13°N, 110.13°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.74°W

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The named rock units Herpetotherium marsupium 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.

Herpetotherium marsupium and its relatives

Eocene

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

Found in the same rock

506 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Herpetotherium marsupium, 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 29 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 content1

Picture of Herpetotherium marsupium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Herpetotherium marsupium 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Troxell 1923)