Hemiauchenia gracilis

Hemiauchenia gracilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HemiaucheniaPBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB, for Hemiauchenia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 4.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 9.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 15 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 15 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–3.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.3–990 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences990 ka–660 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences660 ka–330 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.7 Mya129 ka9.9 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Hemiauchenia gracilis 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

15 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

2 formations

Caloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.03°N, 100.75°W

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The named rock units Hemiauchenia gracilis 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.

Hemiauchenia gracilis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hemiauchenia gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Hemiauchenia gracilis, 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

Each of the 15 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 Hemiauchenia gracilis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Hemiauchenia gracilis 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 itHemiauchenia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meachen 2005