Loveina zephyri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LoveinaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Omomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 51.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Loveina zephyri 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
7 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 Loveina zephyri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Loveina zephyri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Loveina zephyri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Lambdotherium popoagicum6 sites
- Paramys copei5 sites
- Hyracotherium vasacciense4 sites
- Perissodactyla4 sites
- Phenacodus vortmani4 sites
- Bunophorus sinclairi3 sites
- Esthonyx acutidens3 sites
- Heptodon calciculus3 sites
- Hyopsodus wortmani3 sites
- Microsyops scottianus3 sites
- Oxyaenidae3 sites
- Paramys excavatus3 sites
- Viverravus gracilis3 sites
- Absarokius abbotti2 sites
- Coryphodon2 sites
- Coryphodon armatus2 sites
- Diacodexis secans2 sites
- Didymictis2 sites
- Didymictis altidens2 sites
- Esthonyx2 sites
- Herpetotherium innominatum2 sites
- Homogalax2 sites
- Hyopsodus2 sites
- Hyopsodus powellianus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Loveina zephyri, 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
4 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
- Fossil Mammalia of the Huerfano Formation, Eocene, of Colorado2
- New Omomyid Primates (Haplorhini, Tarsiiformes) from Middle Eocene Rocks of West-Central Hot Springs County, Wyoming1
- Studies on the earliest primates1
Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Loveina zephyri
- 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 Loveina zephyri 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 itLoveina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1940