Leptauchenia major

Leptauchenia major

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptaucheniaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 60 of 71 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 71 occurrencesMiocene32–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence32.3 Mya18 Mya

71 occurrences of Leptauchenia major 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

71 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

5 formations

Brule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 41.80°N, 103.80°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WGering — 41.80°N, 103.80°WGering — 41.50°N, 103.80°WGering — 43.00°N, 104.50°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WGering — 41.40°N, 102.40°WSharps — 43.50°N, 101.90°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WSharps — 43.90°N, 102.40°WHarrison — 42.00°N, 104.20°WDeep River — 46.50°N, 111.00°W

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The named rock units Leptauchenia major has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptauchenia major and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Leptauchenia major and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

170 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Leptauchenia major, 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

11 references

Each of the 71 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

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Picture of Leptauchenia major

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No 3D scan of Leptauchenia major 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.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1856)