Dorcadoryx
No picture of Dorcadoryx 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 Dorcadoryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BovidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.67 Mya and 5.09 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dorcadoryx 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Dorcadoryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dorcadoryx and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dorcadoryx and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Dinocrocuta gigantea3 sites
- Hipparion3 sites
- Hipparion chiai3 sites
- Stephanorhinus2 sites
- ? Pseudoaplodon sp.1 site
- Abudhabia sp.1 site
- Acerorhinus1 site
- Adcrocuta eximia1 site
- Antilope1 site
- Brachypotherium1 site
- Chalicotheriidae1 site
- Chalicotherium1 site
- Chilotherium1 site
- Chilotherium anderssoni1 site
- Cricetidae1 site
- Erinaceus1 site
- Eutamias1 site
- Gazella gaudryi1 site
- Gazella lydekkeri1 site
- Heterosminthus1 site
- Heterosminthus gansus1 site
- Hipparion weihoense1 site
- Ictitherium1 site
- Machairodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dorcadoryx, 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
2 references- Land mammal faunal sequence of the late Miocene of China: new evidence from Lantian, Shaanxi Province3
- Some Pliocene mammalian fossils from Songshan 2 and 3 (Tianzhu, Gansu) and the Songshan Fauna1
Each of the 4 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 Dorcadoryx 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 Dorcadoryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dorcadoryx 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBovidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Teilhard de Jardin and Trassaert 1938