Hyrachyus lunanensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyrachyusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Ceratomorpha
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratomorpha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hyrachyus lunanensis 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Hyrachyus lunanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hyrachyus lunanensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hyrachyus lunanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Breviodon lumeiyiensis1 site
- Brontotheriidae1 site
- Hyrachyus minor1 site
- Lophialetes expeditus1 site
- Lophiohippus yunnanensis1 site
- Protitan1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hyrachyus lunanensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Hyrachyus lunanensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Hyrachyus lunanensis 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 itHyrachyus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huang and Qi 1982