Cervus (Rusa) elegans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RusaPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Cervidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 3.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cervus (Rusa) elegans on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene12%
- Pleistocene88%
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.
Cervus (Rusa) elegans and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cervus (Rusa) elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Erinaceus2 sites
- Felis2 sites
- Nyctereutes sinensis2 sites
- Rhinoceros sinensis2 sites
- Ailuropoda wulingshanensis1 site
- Allactaga1 site
- Arvicolinae1 site
- Bison palaeosinensis1 site
- Bos gaurus1 site
- Bubalus1 site
- Budorcas1 site
- Canis1 site
- Canis chihliensis1 site
- Canis palmidens1 site
- Capreolus1 site
- Capricornis sumatraensis1 site
- Cervavitus fenqii1 site
- Chalicotheriidae1 site
- Circotherium1 site
- Coelodonta antiquitatis1 site
- Cricetulus1 site
- Cuon1 site
- Cynailurus1 site
- Dicerorhinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cervus (Rusa) elegans, 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
3 references- A preliminary study of the Bailong Cave Paleoanthropological Site in Yunxi County, Hubei Province1
- The discovery of fossil mammals at Anping, Liaoyang1
- Les mammifères fossiles de Nihowan (Chine)1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cervus (Rusa) elegans 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 Cervus (Rusa) elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cervus (Rusa) elegans 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRusa through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau 1930