Oligoryctes

No picture of Oligoryctes 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 Oligoryctes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 45.9 Mya to 31.8 Mya.

Eocene — about 30 of 34 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 34 occurrencesOligocene46–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39.7 Mya33.9 Mya46.4 Mya31.3 Mya

34 occurrences of Oligoryctes 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

34 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

12 formations

Chadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 46.10°N, 103.30°WChadron — 42.75°N, 103.65°WRenova — 45.00°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WRenova — 45.90°N, 112.25°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WBrule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WTepee Trail — 43.20°N, 108.20°WSage Creek — 45.00°N, 112.80°WClimbing Arrow — 45.93°N, 111.62°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.68°W

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

Oligoryctes and its relatives

Eocene

Where Oligoryctes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

543 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Oligoryctes, 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

17 references

Each of the 34 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Oligoryctes 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 Oligoryctes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Oligoryctes 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 itOligoryctidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hough 1956