Macrogenis
No picture of Macrogenis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Macrogenis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatygoniniPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, omnivorePBDB, for Tayassuidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tayassuidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Macrogenis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group10
- Snake Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Macrogenis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Macrogenis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Macrogenis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Epicyon saevus10 sites
- Aelurodon taxoides9 sites
- Teleoceras major9 sites
- Cranioceras unicornis7 sites
- Leptocyon matthewi7 sites
- Paratomarctus euthos6 sites
- Calippus martini5 sites
- Longirostromeryx wellsi5 sites
- Pseudhipparion gratum5 sites
- Aphelops megalodus4 sites
- Calippus placidus4 sites
- Cynarctus crucidens4 sites
- Hippotherium4 sites
- Nannippus4 sites
- Neohipparion affine4 sites
- Protohippus supremus4 sites
- Ustatochoerus major4 sites
- Barbourofelis whitfordi3 sites
- Calippus cerasinus3 sites
- Hipparion tehonense3 sites
- Mylagaulidae3 sites
- Neohipparion trampasense3 sites
- Protohippus gidleyi3 sites
- Pseudhipparion skinneri3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Macrogenis, 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
2 references- Later Miocene Tayassuidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) of North America11
- Tertiary stratigraphy and the Frick Collection of fossil vertebrates from north-central Nebraska1
Each of the 12 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Macrogenis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Macrogenis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macrogenis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlatygonini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wright 1993