Hypertragulus

Hypertragulus is an extinct genus of hypertragulid ruminant endemic to North America. It lived from the Late Eocene to the Middle Miocene, living 37.2 to 16 million years ago, existing for approximately 21.2 million years.

Hypertragulus

Jonathan Chen · 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
HypertragulidaePBDB
Diet
frugivorePBDB, for Hypertragulidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Hypertragulidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 39.7 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 6 of 54 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 42 of 54 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 54 occurrencesMiocene40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 7 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 7 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37 Mya18.5 Mya40.2 Mya15.8 Mya

54 occurrences of Hypertragulus 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

54 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

13 formations

Brule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.60°N, 119.62°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 121.30°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WPreitos — 29.80°N, 104.50°WPomerado — 32.85°N, 117.03°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WTecuya — 34.92°N, 118.97°WKilldeer — 46.40°N, 103.30°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WMonroe Creek — 42.85°N, 103.87°WRunningwater — 41.70°N, 103.10°WCatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°W

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The named rock units Hypertragulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hypertragulus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Hypertragulus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Hypertragulus, 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

26 references

Each of the 54 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. 14 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 Hypertragulus

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itHypertragulidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1874