Ancylotherium

Ancylotherium is an extinct genus of the family Chalicotheriidae, subfamily Schizotheriinae, endemic to Europe, Asia, and Africa during the Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene, existing for approximately 9.8 million years.

Ancylotherium

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
SchizotheriinaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 8.725 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 21 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 34 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.4–9.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.0–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–6.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.6–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.6–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.4–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.6–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.1–669 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.725 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya274 ka

34 occurrences of Ancylotherium 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

34 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

9 formations

Shungura — 5.10°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EVogel River Series — 3.20°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EMytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°EMpesida — 0.83°N, 35.83°EKhurdkabul — 34.32°N, 69.42°ENea Messimvria — 40.74°N, 22.86°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°E

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The named rock units Ancylotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ancylotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ancylotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

468 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Ancylotherium, 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

26 references

Each of the 34 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Ancylotherium

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ancylotherium 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSchizotheriinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaudry 1863