Lophiomeryx

Lophiomeryx is an extinct genus of lophiomerycid artiodactyl that lived in Eurasia during the Palaeogene and Neogene periods.

Lophiomeryx

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
LophiomerycidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 20.45 Mya.

Eocene — about 5 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 29 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.8 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 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37.71 Mya23.04 Mya48.6 Mya19.9 Mya

35 occurrences of Lophiomeryx 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

35 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

10 formations

Hsanda Gol — 45.26°N, 101.72°EHsanda Gol — 45.29°N, 101.63°EShawan — 44.00°N, 85.50°EAral — 46.80°N, 60.58°EErgilin Dzo — 43.40°N, 109.10°EWulanbulage — 39.83°N, 108.73°EChitarwata — 28.85°N, 69.13°EKargil — 34.55°N, 76.13°EChangi — 45.00°N, 85.00°EViens Marl — 43.93°N, 5.68°EShinao — 26.28°N, 104.90°E

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The named rock units Lophiomeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophiomeryx and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Lophiomeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

403 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Lophiomeryx, 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

21 references

Each of the 35 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. 9 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 Lophiomeryx

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

No 3D scan of Lophiomeryx 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.

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 itLophiomerycidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1853