Aletomeryx gracilis

Aletomeryx gracilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AletomeryxPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Aletomeryx
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Palaeomerycidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 2.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesMiocene19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19 Mya15.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Aletomeryx gracilis 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

7 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

3 formations

Runningwater — 42.75°N, 102.02°WRunningwater — 41.70°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.20°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.80°N, 100.80°WRunningwater — 42.80°N, 103.10°WTorreya — 30.50°N, 84.50°WCarpenter Ranch — 42.27°N, 104.05°W

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The named rock units Aletomeryx gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Aletomeryx gracilis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aletomeryx gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Aletomeryx gracilis, 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

Each of the 7 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 Aletomeryx gracilis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aletomeryx gracilis 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 itAletomeryx through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lull 1920