Knightomys senior
No picture of Knightomys senior 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 Knightomys senior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KnightomysPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
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.
4 occurrences of Knightomys senior 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Knightomys senior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Knightomys senior and its relatives
EoceneWhere Knightomys senior and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Paramys copei4 sites
- Apatemys bellulus3 sites
- Heptodon calciculus3 sites
- Herpetotherium innominatum3 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium3 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus3 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus3 sites
- Knightomys depressus3 sites
- Knightomys huerfanensis3 sites
- Miacis latidens3 sites
- Microsyops scottianus3 sites
- Orohippus3 sites
- Prolimnocyon antiquus3 sites
- Viverravus lutosus3 sites
- Absarokius abbotti2 sites
- Acritoparamys francesi2 sites
- Bunophorus sinclairi2 sites
- Cantius nunienus2 sites
- Centetodon altidens2 sites
- Didymictis altidens2 sites
- Eotitanops borealis2 sites
- Esthonyx acutidens2 sites
- Heptodon posticus2 sites
- Hyaenodontidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Knightomys senior, 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
2 references- Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 5. Geology and biostratigraphy of the upper part of the Wind River Formation, northeastern Wind River Basin3
- A Further Study Of The Lower Eocene Mammalian Faunas Of Southwestern Wyoming1
Each of the 4 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 Knightomys senior 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 Knightomys senior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Knightomys senior 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 itKnightomys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gazin 1952)