Diceratherium armatum

Diceratherium armatum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiceratheriumPBDB
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 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 10 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–8.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31.8 Mya23.04 Mya34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

18 occurrences of Diceratherium armatum on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

18 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

8 formations

Harrison — 43.30°N, 102.50°WHarrison — 43.00°N, 104.50°WHarrison — 42.42°N, 103.86°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WTurtle Butte — 43.07°N, 99.83°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WGering — 43.00°N, 104.50°W

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The named rock units Diceratherium armatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diceratherium armatum and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Diceratherium armatum and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Diceratherium armatum, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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. 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 Diceratherium armatum

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Diceratherium armatum 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDiceratherium through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

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