Diceratherium

Diceratherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid native to North America during the Oligocene through Miocene living from 33.9 to 11.6 mya, existing for approximately 22.3 million years. Mass estimates for the type species, D. armatum average around 1 t (2,200 lb)

Diceratherium

the paleobear · CC BY 2.0 · 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
ElasmotheriinaPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 104 occurrencesOligocene — about 52 of 104 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 52 of 104 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 104 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 8 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.7–8.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31.8 Mya11.63 Mya34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

104 occurrences of Diceratherium 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

104 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

22 formations

Harrison — 43.30°N, 102.50°WHarrison — 43.00°N, 104.50°WHarrison — 42.80°N, 100.80°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WHarrison — 42.42°N, 103.86°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.60°N, 119.62°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WMarsland — 42.42°N, 103.87°WMarsland — 42.40°N, 103.80°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WGering — 41.80°N, 103.80°WGering — 43.00°N, 104.50°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WTurtle Butte — 43.07°N, 99.83°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WMonroe Creek — 43.30°N, 102.50°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WTecuya — 34.92°N, 118.97°WRosebud — 43.18°N, 102.30°WRunningwater — 41.70°N, 103.10°WParachucla — 30.20°N, 82.80°WKirkwood — 40.17°N, 74.15°WKilldeer — 46.40°N, 103.30°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WOakville — 30.10°N, 96.10°WColumbia River Basalts — 47.57°N, 119.41°WCatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°W

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The named rock units Diceratherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diceratherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Diceratherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

548 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Diceratherium, 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

44 references

Each of the 104 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. 32 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 content3

Picture of Diceratherium

Credit
the paleobear
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Diceratherium advenus · YPM:VP:YPM VP 011453

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1875