Oxyaena

Oxyaena is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Oxyaeninae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in Europe, Asia and North America during the early Eocene.

Oxyaena

Wortman, Jacob Lawson. · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OxyaeninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Oxyaenidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 146 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 145 of 146 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 146 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 18 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 25 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 25 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 25 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 25 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 21 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya37.71 Mya59.7 Mya33.4 Mya

146 occurrences of Oxyaena 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

146 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

16 formations

Willwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.39°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.77°N, 109.08°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.57°N, 108.60°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.63°N, 108.50°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.57°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.78°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.76°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 38.70°N, 107.60°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.84°N, 110.72°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WLas Tetas de Cabra — 28.68°N, 114.08°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WNaran Bulak — 43.47°N, 100.45°ETienen — 50.82°N, 5.10°EVaugirard — 48.81°N, 2.24°EBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EWutu — 36.52°N, 118.92°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°E

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The named rock units Oxyaena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oxyaena and its relatives

Eocene

Where Oxyaena and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

768 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 134 sites for Oxyaena, 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

25 references

Each of the 146 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. 13 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 Oxyaena

Credit
Wortman, Jacob Lawson.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Cope 1874