Microsyopidae

Microsyopidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrimatesPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 60.9 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 63.4 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 32 of 474 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 442 of 474 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 474 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 10 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 22 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 56 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 56 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 56 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 56 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 42 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 22 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 22 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 21 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 20 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 17 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 10 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 10 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 10 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 10 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 10 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60.9 Mya37 Mya64 Mya33.3 Mya

474 occurrences of Microsyopidae 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

474 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

40 formations

Willwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.80°N, 109.10°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 — 44.53°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.41°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.33°N, 108.77°WWillwood — 44.35°N, 108.75°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.65°WWillwood — 44.62°N, 108.81°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.74°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.64°WWillwood — 44.76°N, 108.88°WWillwood — 44.28°N, 108.03°WWillwood — 44.33°N, 108.27°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.20°N, 110.50°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.75°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.22°N, 109.72°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.28°N, 110.03°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WFriars — 32.78°N, 117.07°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WAycross — 43.90°N, 110.80°WAycross — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.83°N, 108.60°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WGreen River — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WPaskapoo — 51.50°N, 112.30°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.60°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WWapiti — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WMission Valley — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WBlack Peaks — 29.46°N, 103.15°WTuscahoma — 32.36°N, 88.70°WTepee Trail — 43.20°N, 108.20°WStadium — 32.78°N, 117.15°WStadium — 32.80°N, 117.12°W

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The named rock units Microsyopidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microsyopidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Microsyopidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

952 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 405 sites for Microsyopidae, and this reads 240 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

90 references

Each of the 474 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. 78 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 content1

Picture of Microsyopidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Osborn and Wortman 1892