Washakius woodringi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WashakiusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Omomyidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Omomyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Omomyidae
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 37 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Washakius woodringi 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
17 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
2 formations
- Friars Formation · La Jolla Group16
- Santiago Formation1
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The named rock units Washakius woodringi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Washakius woodringi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Washakius woodringi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Microparamys minutus17 sites
- Sciuravus powayensis17 sites
- Crypholestes vaughni14 sites
- Herpetotherium knighti14 sites
- Metanoiamys agorus14 sites
- Uintasorex montezumicus14 sites
- Patriolestes novaceki12 sites
- Aethomylos simplicidens10 sites
- Centetodon aztecus10 sites
- Pareumys grangeri10 sites
- Batodonoides powayensis8 sites
- Glyptosaurinae8 sites
- Palaeoxantusia allisoni7 sites
- Peradectes7 sites
- Peradectes californicus6 sites
- Tinosaurus stenodon6 sites
- Omomyidae5 sites
- Omomys carteri5 sites
- Paracontogenys estesi5 sites
- Parasauromalus olseni5 sites
- Apatemys bellus4 sites
- Uintaparamys caryophilus4 sites
- Chiroptera3 sites
- Gekkonidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Washakius woodringi, 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- Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene strata of southern California10
- Eocene mammal faunas of San Diego County6
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
Each of the 17 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 Washakius woodringi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Washakius woodringi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
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What may have been alongside itWashakius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stock 1938)