Cainotheriidae

Cainotheriidae is an extinct family of artiodactyls known from the Late Eocene to Middle Miocene of Europe. They are mostly found preserved in karstic deposits.

Cainotheriidae

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
CainotherioideaPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 94 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 94 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 39 of 94 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 39 of 94 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 94 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya13.82 Mya57 Mya4 Mya

94 occurrences of Cainotheriidae 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

94 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

10 formations

Quercy Phosphorites — 44.27°N, 1.67°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EBorgloon — 50.85°N, 4.82°ECalcaires de Vacheres — 43.87°N, 5.52°EBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°WCórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WMiocene Lower Continental Complex — 41.44°N, 2.00°ELower Freshwater Molasse — 46.88°N, 7.11°EDetritic-Carbonated Unit of Subirats — 41.42°N, 1.81°E

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The named rock units Cainotheriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 81 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cainotheriidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cainotheriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

956 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Cainotheriidae, 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 94 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 Cainotheriidae

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

No 3D scan of Cainotheriidae 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1881