Hyopsodus lepidus
No picture of Hyopsodus lepidus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Hyopsodus lepidus itself, so it was not used. 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 Hyopsodus lepidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyopsodusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Hyopsodontidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Hyopsodus lepidus 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
10 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Hyopsodus lepidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hyopsodus lepidus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hyopsodus lepidus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Orohippus4 sites
- Washakius insignis4 sites
- Homacodon vagans3 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum3 sites
- Omomys carteri3 sites
- Planorbina3 sites
- Sciuravus nitidus3 sites
- Apatemys bellulus2 sites
- Centetodon altidens2 sites
- Centetodon bembicophagus2 sites
- Centetodon pulcher2 sites
- Dunnophis microechinis2 sites
- Herpetotheriidae2 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti2 sites
- Holospira2 sites
- Hyrachyus eximius2 sites
- Notharctus robustior2 sites
- Nyctitherium nitidum2 sites
- Nyctitherium velox2 sites
- Paramyidae2 sites
- Peradectes chesteri2 sites
- Rhineura2 sites
- Saniwa2 sites
- Telmatherium validus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Hyopsodus lepidus, 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
5 references- The geology and paleontology of the Elk Mountain and Tabernacle Butte area, Wyoming5
- Paleontology and geology of the Bridger Formation, southern Green River Basin, southwestern Wyoming. Part 3. Notes on Hyopsodus2
- Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 2: Apatotheria, Lipotyphla, Carnivoramorpha, Condylartha, Dinocerata, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla1
- Age and stratigraphic relationships of the Fowkes Formation, Eocene, of southwestern Wyoming and northeastern Utah1
- The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene1
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 Hyopsodus lepidus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Hyopsodus lepidus itself, so it was not used.
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 Hyopsodus lepidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hyopsodus lepidus 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 itHyopsodus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1909