Thinohyus

Thinohyus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TayassuidaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, omnivorePBDB, for Tayassuidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Tayassuidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiocene32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32.3 Mya18 Mya

8 occurrences of Thinohyus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

8 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

2 formations

Sharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WJohn Day — 44.60°N, 119.62°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°W

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The named rock units Thinohyus 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.

Thinohyus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Thinohyus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Thinohyus, 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

Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Thinohyus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Thinohyus sp. · CM:VertPaleo:001423

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTayassuidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1875