Marsholestes
No picture of Marsholestes 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 Marsholestes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GeolabididaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 51.1 Mya and 45.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Marsholestes 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
3 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 Marsholestes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Marsholestes and its relatives
EoceneWhere Marsholestes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Hyopsodus paulus3 sites
- Microsyops elegans3 sites
- Scenopagus edenensis3 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus2 sites
- Apatemys bellulus2 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti2 sites
- Herpetotherium marsupium2 sites
- Hyrachyus modestus2 sites
- Microparamys2 sites
- Nyctitheriidae2 sites
- Nyctitherium priscum2 sites
- Nyctitherium serotinum2 sites
- Omomys carteri2 sites
- Orohippus pumilus2 sites
- Paramyidae2 sites
- Paramys delicatus2 sites
- Reithroparamys delicatissimus2 sites
- Sciuravus nitidus2 sites
- Sinopa rapax2 sites
- Smilodectes gracilis2 sites
- Viverravus gracilis2 sites
- Adapisoricidae1 site
- Aletornis bellus1 site
- Aletornis nobilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Marsholestes, 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- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Mammalian Faunal Zones of the Bridger Middle Eocene1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Marsholestes 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 Marsholestes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Marsholestes 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGeolabididae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McKenna 1992