Thomashuxleya

Thomashuxleya is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammal, named after famous 19th-century biologist Thomas Huxley.

Thomashuxleya

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
IsotemnidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48 Mya41.03 Mya56.5 Mya37.2 Mya

20 occurrences of Thomashuxleya 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

20 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

Sarmiento — 45.40°S, 67.72°WSarmiento — 45.33°S, 68.00°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WCasamayor — 45.35°S, 68.37°W

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The named rock units Thomashuxleya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thomashuxleya and its relatives

Eocene

Where Thomashuxleya and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Thomashuxleya, 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

4 references

Each of the 20 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Thomashuxleya

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thomashuxleya 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.

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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What may have been alongside itIsotemnidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1901