Mouillacitherium elegans
No picture of Mouillacitherium elegans 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 Mouillacitherium elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MouillacitheriumPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Mouillacitherium elegans 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
12 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 Mouillacitherium elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mouillacitherium elegans and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mouillacitherium elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Haplomeryx picteti5 sites
- Leptotheridium lugeoni5 sites
- Necrosaurus cayluxi5 sites
- Placosaurus5 sites
- Pseudamphimeryx renevieri5 sites
- Amphisbaenidae4 sites
- Anguini4 sites
- Cadurcogekko piveteaui4 sites
- Leptadapis magnus4 sites
- Necrolemur antiquus4 sites
- Plesiolacerta lydekkeri4 sites
- Pseudoloris parvulus4 sites
- Tapirulus perrierensis4 sites
- Blanidae3 sites
- Enigmatosaurus3 sites
- Gracilicerta sindexi3 sites
- Ophisaurus3 sites
- Palaeopython cadurcensis3 sites
- Peratherium3 sites
- Plagiolophus annectens3 sites
- Pseudamphimeryx pavloviae3 sites
- Pseudoltinomys phosphoricus3 sites
- Suevosciurus3 sites
- Tupinambinae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mouillacitherium elegans, 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
2 references- Les artiodactyles de l'Eocene moyen et superieur d'Europe occidentale; systematique et evolution11
- Le gisement du Bretou (Phosphorites du Quercy, Tarn-et-Garonne, France) et sa faune des vertebres de l'Eocene superieur; 7. Artiodactyles. [Le Bretou locality (Quercy Phosphorites, Tarn-et-Garonne, France) and its late Eocene vertebrate fauna; 7. Artiodactyla.]1
Each of the 12 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
Media content0
No picture of Mouillacitherium elegans 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 Mouillacitherium elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mouillacitherium elegans 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 itMouillacitherium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Filhol 1882