Mesonyx uqbulakensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesonyxPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mesonychidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Mesonychidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mesonyx uqbulakensis 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 Mesonyx uqbulakensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesonyx uqbulakensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mesonyx uqbulakensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Breviodon1 site
- Eudinoceras1 site
- Metahapalodectes1 site
- Pantolambdodon1 site
- Schlosseria magister1 site
- Tapiroidea1 site
- Uintatherium insperatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesonyx uqbulakensis, 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
2 references- Some Eocene Mammals From the Uqbulak Area of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang2
- New Mesonychid (Mammalia) material from the lower Paleogene of the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mesonyx uqbulakensis 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 Mesonyx uqbulakensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesonyx uqbulakensis 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 itMesonyx through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tong 1989