Dremotherium

Dremotherium is an extinct genus of musk deer that lived from the late Oligocene to the early Miocene. Four species have been described based on fossils found across the Holarctic realm, specifically France, Germany, Spain and Mongolia. Numerous cranial remains and parts of the postcranial skeleton of Dremotherium have been found.

Dremotherium

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PecoraPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 13 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–7.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya27.8 Mya4.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Dremotherium on record. 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

16 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

Hsanda Gol — 45.39°N, 101.24°EKizilirmak — 40.23°N, 34.05°EEbnater Schichten — 47.27°N, 9.12°E

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The named rock units Dremotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

277 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Dremotherium, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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 Dremotherium

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dremotherium 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPecora through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geoffroy 1833