Mesomeryx grangeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesomeryxPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Mesomeryx
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Mesomeryx
- 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.
6 occurrences of Mesomeryx grangeri 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
6 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 Mesomeryx grangeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesomeryx grangeri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mesomeryx grangeri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Ourayia uintensis4 sites
- Epihippus gracilis3 sites
- Miacis3 sites
- Miocyon scotti3 sites
- Amynodon2 sites
- Baena arenosa2 sites
- Pareumys grangeri2 sites
- Primates2 sites
- Protoptychus hatcheri2 sites
- Stehlinius uintensis2 sites
- Achaenodon1 site
- Achaenodon insolens1 site
- Achaenodon uintense1 site
- Amynodon advenus1 site
- Amynodon reedi1 site
- Anosteira pulchra1 site
- Apataelurus kayi1 site
- Baena affinis1 site
- Bunomeryx montanus1 site
- Chipetaia lamporea1 site
- Chisternon undatum1 site
- Diacodont sp.1 site
- Diplobunops vanhouteni1 site
- Eomoropus amarorum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mesomeryx grangeri, 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
5 references- Stratigraphic Distribution of Upper Middle Eocene Fossil Vertebrate Localities in the Eastern Uinta Basin, Utah, With Comments on Uintan Biostratigraphy2
- Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bridgerian-Uintan Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming1
- Magnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the middle Eocene Uinta Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah1
- Skeletal material of the small artiodactyl Mesomeryx grangeri from the Uinta Formation, Uintah Basin, Utah1
- The Eocene Vertebrates of the Uinta Basin, Utah1
Each of the 6 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 Mesomeryx grangeri 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 Mesomeryx grangeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesomeryx grangeri 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 itMesomeryx through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peterson 1919