Merycobunodon littoralis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MerycobunodonPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Oromerycidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Oromerycidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Merycobunodon littoralis 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
2 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
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group2
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The named rock units Merycobunodon littoralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Merycobunodon littoralis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Merycobunodon littoralis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Leptoreodon major2 sites
- Leptoreodon marshi2 sites
- Pareumys grangeri2 sites
- Protoreodon parvus2 sites
- Sciuravus powayensis2 sites
- Amyda1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Antiacodon venustus1 site
- Anura1 site
- Brontotheriidae1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Crypholestes vaughni1 site
- Eusuchia1 site
- Helohyidae1 site
- Hesperaletes walshi1 site
- Iguanidae1 site
- Insectivora1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
- Metanoiamys agorus1 site
- Metarhinus pater1 site
- Microsyops kratos1 site
- Parasauromalus1 site
- Parasauromalus olseni1 site
- Patriolestes novaceki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Merycobunodon littoralis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Merycobunodon littoralis 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 Merycobunodon littoralis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Merycobunodon littoralis 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 itMerycobunodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Golz 1976