Leptomeryx blacki

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptomeryxPBDB
- Diet
- frugivorePBDB, for Leptomerycidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Leptomerycidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Leptomeryx blacki 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 Leptomeryx blacki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptomeryx blacki and its relatives
EoceneWhere Leptomeryx blacki and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Aplodontiidae1 site
- Canidae1 site
- Colodon1 site
- Equidae1 site
- Paramyinae1 site
- Poabromylus robustus1 site
- Protitanops curryi1 site
- Protoreodon transmontanus1 site
- Teletaceras mortivallis1 site
- Telmatheriina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Leptomeryx blacki, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Leptomeryx blacki
- 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 Leptomeryx blacki was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLeptomeryx through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stock 1949