Aceratherium

Aceratherium

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
AceratheriiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Length
2.3 mWikidata
Mass
1 tonneWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 5.09 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 95 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 95 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 88 of 95 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 95 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 95 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 13 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.6–8.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences8.5–7.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences7.4–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.3 Mya5.09 Mya34.5 Mya2 Mya

95 occurrences of Aceratherium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

95 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

24 formations

Dam — 25.98°N, 49.39°ELothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°ELothidok — 3.22°N, 35.83°ETiim — 0.84°N, 35.82°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°EPiram Conglomerate — 21.62°N, 72.38°EChinji — 32.68°N, 72.37°ELower Bone Bed — 41.51°N, 2.19°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WBakhtiari — 37.06°N, 42.14°EShanwang — 36.52°N, 118.54°EAral — 46.80°N, 60.58°EErgene — 41.20°N, 27.83°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EBakate — 4.27°N, 36.60°EAlfambra — 40.50°N, 1.02°WMoghara — 30.38°N, 28.82°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EUlantatal — 39.20°N, 105.57°ELoh — 45.49°N, 101.20°EScheia — 46.58°N, 27.47°ERavin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.45°EGnilyane — 42.80°N, 23.06°EBoom — 51.21°N, 4.34°E

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The named rock units Aceratherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aceratherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aceratherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Aceratherium, 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

58 references

Each of the 95 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. 46 further references are not listed. 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 Aceratherium

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
?Aceratherium sp. · wihg:wif/a:1856

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kaup 1834