Bouromeryx

No picture of Bouromeryx was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bouromeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CranioceratiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Dromomerycidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromomerycidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 320 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiocene — about 40 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 40 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.3 Mya – 15.98 Mya23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

40 occurrences of Bouromeryx 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

40 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

16 formations

Sheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WTemblor — 35.44°N, 118.88°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 118.92°WTemblor — 35.27°N, 119.31°WBox Butte — 42.20°N, 103.10°WBox Butte — 42.80°N, 103.10°WJohn Day — 44.76°N, 121.26°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 121.30°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 109.00°WTorreya — 30.50°N, 84.50°WPunchbowl — 34.80°N, 117.00°WOlcott — 42.19°N, 103.73°WPawnee Creek — 40.80°N, 104.20°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WCrowder — 34.80°N, 117.00°WCajon Valley Beds — 34.80°N, 117.00°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°W

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The named rock units Bouromeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bouromeryx and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bouromeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

462 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Bouromeryx, 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

19 references

Each of the 40 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. 7 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

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Bouromeryx sp. · UF:VP:244143

No picture of Bouromeryx was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bouromeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Skinner et al. 1977