Dinohyus hollandi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DinohyusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Entelodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Entelodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 2.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 12.5 Mya.
7 occurrences of Dinohyus hollandi 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
7 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
5 formations
- Marsland Formation · Hemingford Group1
- Vaqueros Formation1
- Harrison Formation1
- Oakville Formation1
- Fleming Formation1
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The named rock units Dinohyus hollandi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dinohyus hollandi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dinohyus hollandi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Menoceras arikarense3 sites
- Cynelos2 sites
- Delotrochanter oryktes2 sites
- Diceratherium niobrarense2 sites
- Kalobatippus agatensis2 sites
- Moropus elatus2 sites
- Ysengrinia americana2 sites
- Accipitridae1 site
- Aletomeryx1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Buteo typhoius1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Cephalogale1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Daphoenodon1 site
- Daphoenodon superbus1 site
- Desmocyon thomsoni1 site
- Diceratherium1 site
- Diceratherium annectens1 site
- Equidae1 site
- Galeocerdo1 site
- Heterodontus1 site
- Isurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Dinohyus hollandi, 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
6 references- Early Miocene entelodonts, Texas Coastal Plain2
- Dinohyus aff. D. hollandi (Mammalia, Entelodontidae) in Alabama1
- Coombs, 19841
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California1
- Osteology and affinities of the genus Stenomylus1
- The Miocene Beds of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming and Their Vertebrate Faunae1
Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Dinohyus hollandi
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- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dinohyus hollandi 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 itDinohyus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Peterson 1905)