Dicrocerus elegans

Dicrocerus elegans

Conty · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
DicrocerusPBDB
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 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Miocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesMiocene20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.6–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya11.63 Mya20.9 Mya6.7 Mya

20 occurrences of Dicrocerus elegans 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

20 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

3 formations

Shanwang — 32.14°N, 118.70°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°E

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The named rock units Dicrocerus elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dicrocerus elegans and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dicrocerus elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

416 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Dicrocerus 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

14 references

Each of the 20 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. 2 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 Dicrocerus elegans

Credit
Conty
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dicrocerus elegans 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 itDicrocerus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lartet 1837