Hitonkala
No picture of Hitonkala 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 Hitonkala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlorentiamyidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 24.7 Mya to 23.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
10 occurrences of Hitonkala on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Sharps Formation2
- Harrison Formation · Arikaree Group2
- Cypress Hills Formation1
- Reunion Creek Beds Formation · Arikaree Group1
- Coffee Mill Butte Beds Formation · Arikaree Group1
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The named rock units Hitonkala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hitonkala and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Hitonkala and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Herpetotherium youngi7 sites
- Promylagaulus riggsi6 sites
- Proscalops secundus6 sites
- Gripholagomys lavocati5 sites
- Entoptychus grandiplanus4 sites
- Paciculus nebraskensis4 sites
- Palaeocastor4 sites
- Alwoodia3 sites
- Archaeolagus primigenius3 sites
- Florentiamys3 sites
- Geomyoidea3 sites
- Nototamias quadratus3 sites
- Palaeolagus philoi3 sites
- Parallomys americanus3 sites
- Proheteromys3 sites
- Sanctimus stuartae3 sites
- Trilaccogaulus ovatus3 sites
- Alwoodia harkseni2 sites
- Archaeocyon leptodus2 sites
- Archaeolagus2 sites
- Arikareeomys skinneri2 sites
- Arretotherium2 sites
- Campestrallomys dawsonae2 sites
- Centetodon divaricatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Hitonkala, 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
6 references- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of early Arikareean through late Hemingfordian small mammal faunas from the Nebraska Panhandle and adjacent areas3
- Fossil small mammals from the Harrison Formation (late Arikareean: earliest Miocene), Cherry County, Nebraska2
- Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota2
- Small mammals of the Kealey Springs local fauna (early Arikareean; late Oligocene) of Saskatchewan1
- Dinohyus (Mammalia: Entelodontidae) in the Sharps Formation, South Dakota1
- The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota1
Each of the 10 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 Hitonkala 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 Hitonkala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hitonkala 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFlorentiamyidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Macdonald 1963