Brachypotherium

Brachypotherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid that lived in Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene.

Brachypotherium

Mauricio Antón, published with Alan Turner · CC BY 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
TeleoceratinaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 74 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 70 of 74 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 74 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 74 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.9–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–7.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.2–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–2.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.9–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20.45 Mya5.333 Mya27.8 Mya2.1 Mya

74 occurrences of Brachypotherium 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

74 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

26 formations

Chitarwata — 30.08°N, 70.33°EChinji — 32.68°N, 72.37°EChinji — 32.93°N, 71.66°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EDang Valley — 28.04°N, 82.24°ENagri — 32.77°N, 72.50°EDhok Pathan — 33.63°N, 72.52°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EMpesida — 0.83°N, 35.83°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EXiejia — 36.52°N, 101.67°EMagian suite — 39.50°N, 67.61°EAgha Jari — 34.48°N, 44.63°EShanwang — 32.14°N, 118.70°EChetougou — 36.67°N, 101.52°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EChinji — 32.82°N, 75.37°ESegui — 33.22°N, 1.17°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EBahe — 34.15°N, 109.33°EMaradah — 28.00°N, 20.50°E

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The named rock units Brachypotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachypotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Brachypotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

935 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Brachypotherium, 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

45 references

Each of the 74 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. 33 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 Brachypotherium

Credit
Mauricio Antón, published with Alan Turner
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brachypotherium 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roger 1904