Microsus cuspidatus

Microsus cuspidatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrosusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Microsus
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Microsus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

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.

Eocene — about 19 of 19 occurrencesEocene51–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51.6 Mya45.4 Mya

19 occurrences of Microsus cuspidatus 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

19 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

2 formations

Bridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 42.45°N, 108.60°W

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The named rock units Microsus cuspidatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Microsus cuspidatus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Microsus cuspidatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

99 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Microsus cuspidatus, 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

Each of the 19 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 content1

Picture of Microsus cuspidatus

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Microsus cuspidatus 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 itMicrosus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1870)