Stylinodon mirus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StylinodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Stylinodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Stylinodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Stylinodontidae
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 45.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 39.7 Mya.
16 occurrences of Stylinodon mirus 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
16 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
6 formations
- Bridger Formation8
- Wasatch Formation2
- Huerfano Formation2
- Washakie Formation2
- Wind River Formation1
- Uinta Formation1
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The named rock units Stylinodon mirus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stylinodon mirus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Stylinodon mirus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
147 taxa- Omomys carteri5 sites
- Sciuravus nitidus5 sites
- Bunophorus sinclairi4 sites
- Hyrachyus modestus4 sites
- Lambdotherium popoagicum4 sites
- Esthonyx acutidens3 sites
- Glyptosaurus sylvestris3 sites
- Homacodontidae3 sites
- Hyopsodus minusculus3 sites
- Hyopsodus paulus3 sites
- Hyracotherium vasacciense3 sites
- Microsyops elegans3 sites
- Microsyops scottianus3 sites
- Notharctus robinsoni3 sites
- Notharctus robustior3 sites
- Orohippus pumilus3 sites
- Patriofelis ferox3 sites
- Sinopa rapax3 sites
- Uintaparamys parvus3 sites
- Uintatherium anceps3 sites
- Antiacodon pygmaeus2 sites
- Coryphodon armatus2 sites
- Didymictis altidens2 sites
- Hadrianus corsoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Stylinodon mirus, 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
6 references- Mammalian Fauna From the Lower Bridger Formation (Bridger A, Early Middle Eocene) of the Southern Green River Basin, Wyoming5
- New Conoryctines (Mammalia: Taeniodonta) from the Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian) of Western North America5
- Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bridgerian-Uintan Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming2
- The Systematics of Stylinodon, an Eocene Taeniodont (Mammalia) from Western North America2
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Systematics, Functional Morphology and Macroevolution of the Extinct Mammalian Order Taeniodonta1
Each of the 16 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 Stylinodon mirus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- ДиБгд
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stylinodon mirus 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 itStylinodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1874