Poebrotherium eximium

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PoebrotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- browser, browserPBDB, for Camelidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 31.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Poebrotherium eximium 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 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Poebrotherium eximium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Poebrotherium eximium and its relatives
EoceneWhere Poebrotherium eximium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Hesperocyon gregarius6 sites
- Leptomeryx speciosus6 sites
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii6 sites
- Brontotheriidae5 sites
- Hyaenodon crucians5 sites
- Palaeolagus haydeni5 sites
- Hyaenodon horridus4 sites
- Ischyromys veterior4 sites
- Leptictis dakotensis4 sites
- Megalagus turgidus4 sites
- Miniochoerus chadronensis4 sites
- Paratylopus labiatus4 sites
- Poebrotherium wilsoni4 sites
- Subhyracodon mitis4 sites
- Brachyrhynchocyon3 sites
- Hypertragulus calcaratus3 sites
- Ischyromys3 sites
- Leptomeryx evansi3 sites
- Megalagus brachyodon3 sites
- Mesohippus bairdi3 sites
- Miniochoerus forsythae3 sites
- Palaeolagus temnodon3 sites
- Yoderimyinae3 sites
- Adjidaumo minimus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Poebrotherium eximium, 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
5 references- Camelidae5
- Elocene-Oligocene climatic change in North America: The White River Formation near Douglass, East-Central Wyoming4
- Camelidae1
- Oligocene calibration of the magnetic polarity time scale1
- Preliminary Analysis of the Fossil Vertebrates of the Canyon Ferry Reservoir Area1
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. 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 content1

Picture of Poebrotherium eximium
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Poebrotherium eximium was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPoebrotherium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hay 1902