Phiomia minor
No picture of Phiomia minor 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 Phiomia minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhiomiaPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Proboscidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Proboscidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Phiomia minor 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
5 occurrencesThese 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 Phiomia minor 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.
Phiomia minor and its relatives
EoceneWhere Phiomia minor and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Moeritherium trigonodon2 sites
- Andrewsemys libyca1 site
- Apterodon macrognathus1 site
- Arsinoitherium1 site
- Arsinoitherium zitteli1 site
- Barytherium1 site
- Barytherium grave1 site
- Bothriogenys gorringei1 site
- Brachyodus1 site
- Bunohyrax fajumensis1 site
- Bunohyrax major1 site
- Creodonta1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Crocodylus megarhinus1 site
- Dacquemys paleomorpha1 site
- Eogavialis gavialoides1 site
- Eremopezus eocaenus1 site
- Fajumia1 site
- Gavialidae1 site
- Geniohyus mirus1 site
- Gigantochersina ammon1 site
- Gigantophis1 site
- Hyaenodon1 site
- Hyracoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Phiomia minor, 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
3 references- Palaeogene vertebrate fauna and regressive sediments of Dur at Talhah, southern Sirt Basin, Libya2
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt2
- Gisements de Vertebres dans le bassin teriaire de Syrte (Libye)1
Each of the 5 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. 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 Phiomia minor 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 Phiomia minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phiomia minor 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhiomia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Andrews 1904)