Ourayia

Ourayia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OurayiiniPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Omomyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 39.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 35 of 35 occurrencesEocene46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence46.4 Mya39.2 Mya

35 occurrences of Ourayia 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

35 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

10 formations

Uinta — 40.07°N, 109.28°WUinta — 40.17°N, 109.93°WUinta — 40.07°N, 109.70°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.30°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WSantiago — 33.13°N, 117.29°WSantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WMission Valley — 32.90°N, 117.10°WStadium — 32.78°N, 117.15°WStadium — 32.80°N, 117.12°WWagon Bed ("Tepee Trail") — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WPomerado — 32.92°N, 117.07°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°W

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

Ourayia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ourayia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

345 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Ourayia, 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

16 references

Each of the 35 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. 4 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 Ourayia

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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Ourayia uintensis · cm:vertpaleo:80258

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOurayiini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gazin 1958