Elomeryx

Elomeryx is an extinct genus of artiodactyl, and is among the earliest known anthracotheres. The genus was extremely widespread, first being found in Asia in the middle Eocene, in Europe during the latest Eocene, and having spread to North America by the early Oligocene. The closest living relatives of the Elomeryx are thought to be suids, hippopotami, and cetaceans.

Elomeryx

Uncredited · 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
BothriodontinaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Anthracotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 20 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 37 occurrencesMiocene42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33.9 Mya20 Mya41.5 Mya15.5 Mya

37 occurrences of Elomeryx 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

37 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

19 formations

Cypress Hills — 49.60°N, 108.80°WCypress Hills — 49.80°N, 109.00°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.80°N, 103.10°WSage Creek — 45.00°N, 112.80°WArikaree — 46.40°N, 103.30°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WSespe — 34.25°N, 118.96°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EMelker Sand — 48.29°N, 15.59°ENa Duong — 21.70°N, 106.97°ENakazato — 33.20°N, 129.75°EChitarwata — 30.08°N, 70.33°ETaoyama — 33.95°N, 130.93°EFukui — 33.19°N, 129.70°EObere Bunte Mergel — 47.23°N, 7.77°EViens Marl — 43.93°N, 5.68°EMoschopotamos — 40.32°N, 22.31°EArikaree channels — 43.61°N, 102.66°WCatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°W

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The named rock units Elomeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elomeryx and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Elomeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

426 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Elomeryx, 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

30 references

Each of the 37 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. 18 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 Elomeryx

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Elomeryx 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.

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.

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What may have been alongside itBothriodontinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1894