Eucladoceros

Eucladoceros is an extinct genus of large deer whose fossils have been discovered across Eurasia, from Europe to China, spanning from the Early Pliocene to the end of the Early Pleistocene. The various species of the genus are noted for their unusual comb-like or branching antlers, though antler shape varied considerably between different species.

Eucladoceros

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CervinaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Cervidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Length
2.5 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 78 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 78 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 58 of 78 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 78 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.58 Mya774 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

78 occurrences of Eucladoceros on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

78 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

8 formations

Kuruksai suite — 38.31°N, 69.67°EGerakarou — 40.68°N, 23.15°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EKhapry — 47.24°N, 39.71°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EWestkapelle Ground — 51.62°N, 3.88°ENorwich Crag — 52.31°N, 1.40°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°W

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The named rock units Eucladoceros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 70 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eucladoceros and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eucladoceros and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

621 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Eucladoceros, 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

49 references

Each of the 78 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. 37 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 content2

Picture of Eucladoceros

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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What may have been alongside itCervinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Falconer 1868)