Miacis

Miacis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarnivoraformesPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Theria
Life habit
arborealPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 154 occurrencesEocene — about 153 of 154 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 154 occurrencesOligocene57–56 Mya — about 9 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 21 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 21 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 21 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 21 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 13 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51.1 Mya37 Mya56.6 Mya26.7 Mya

154 occurrences of Miacis 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

154 occurrences

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

30 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.80°N, 109.10°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.58°WWillwood — 44.68°N, 108.73°WWillwood — 44.57°N, 108.55°WWillwood — 44.61°N, 108.81°WWillwood — 44.67°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.16°N, 107.87°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.04°N, 110.23°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.29°N, 108.47°WWashakie — 41.28°N, 108.05°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°WUinta — 40.08°N, 109.27°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WLushi — 34.05°N, 111.03°EHetaoyuan — 33.25°N, 111.45°EHetaoyuan — 33.00°N, 111.42°EChangxindian — 39.82°N, 116.19°EMargaret — 78.50°N, 82.00°WTuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°WGolden Valley — 46.90°N, 102.80°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WFowkes — 41.31°N, 111.02°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WPomerado — 32.92°N, 117.07°WRenova — 45.00°N, 112.80°WChadron — 45.47°N, 112.62°WChakpaktas — 48.00°N, 84.00°ECreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WCalcaire de Saint-Ouen — 49.13°N, 3.35°E

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The named rock units Miacis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Miacis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Miacis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,253 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Miacis, 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

52 references

Each of the 154 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. 40 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Miacis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Miacis latidens · FMNH:P:26875

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1872