Diceratherium tridactylum
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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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Diceratherium tridactylum 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Diceratherium tridactylum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diceratherium tridactylum and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Diceratherium tridactylum and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Amphicaenopus platycephalus3 sites
- Leptauchenia decora3 sites
- Merycoidodon major3 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax2 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius2 sites
- Hyracodon leidyanus2 sites
- Mesocyon temnodon2 sites
- Nimravidae2 sites
- Palaeolagus burkei2 sites
- Protoceras celer2 sites
- Tayassuidae2 sites
- Agriochoerus gaudryi1 site
- Archaeocyon leptodus1 site
- Archaeotherium lemleyi1 site
- Castoridae1 site
- Centetodon magnus1 site
- Cynodesmus thooides1 site
- Elomeryx armatus1 site
- Entelodontidae1 site
- Eumys brachyodus1 site
- Eumys elegans1 site
- Heptacodon curtus1 site
- Hyaenodon1 site
- Hypertragulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diceratherium tridactylum, 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
4 references- The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses4
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Eocene and Oligocene mammals from the Gravelly Range of Southwest Montana1
- Fossil mammals of the Lower Miocene White River beds. Collection of 18921
Each of the 8 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 Diceratherium tridactylum 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 Diceratherium tridactylum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diceratherium tridactylum 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.
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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. (Osborn 1893)