Aphelops mutilus

Aphelops mutilus

VANDERHOOF+CRESS · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
AphelopsPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Aphelops
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Aphelops
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 7.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 21 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 24 occurrencesPliocene13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.8–9.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.5–9.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–8.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.9–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–8.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.3–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–6.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.0–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–5.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.4–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–4.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13 Mya4.2 Mya

24 occurrences of Aphelops mutilus 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

24 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

8 formations

Ash Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WChamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WChalk Hills — 42.77°N, 115.92°WChalk Hills — 42.73°N, 115.87°WGoodnight Beds — 35.00°N, 101.30°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WRingold — 46.23°N, 119.28°W

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The named rock units Aphelops mutilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphelops mutilus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aphelops mutilus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

338 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Aphelops mutilus, 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

14 references

Each of the 24 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. 2 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 Aphelops mutilus

Source
GBIF
Credit
VANDERHOOF+CRESS
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aphelops mutilus 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 itAphelops through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1924