Hyracotherium vasacciense

Hyracotherium vasacciense

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyracotheriumPBDB
Diet
frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Palaeotheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Palaeotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Palaeotheriidae

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesEocene — about 45 of 45 occurrencesEocene56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56.5 Mya45.4 Mya

45 occurrences of Hyracotherium vasacciense 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

45 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

11 formations

Wind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WHannold Hill — 29.42°N, 103.14°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.20°N, 108.20°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WPass Peak — 42.70°N, 110.10°WMiddle Variegated Sequence — 43.20°N, 108.20°WFarisita — 37.80°N, 105.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°W"Middle (?) Eocene Volcaniclastic Sequence" — 43.20°N, 107.10°W

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

Hyracotherium vasacciense and its relatives

Eocene

Where Hyracotherium vasacciense and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

329 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Hyracotherium vasacciense, 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

14 references

Each of the 45 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Hyracotherium vasacciense

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CT scan

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Specimen
Hyracotherium vasacciense · MCZ:VP:VPM-19205

3D model

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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. (Cope 1872)