Megacerini
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CervinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Cervidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
75 occurrences of Megacerini 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
75 occurrences- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene93%
- Holocene4%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Megacerini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 72 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megacerini and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Megacerini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
252 taxa- Candiacervus listeri12 sites
- Mus minotaurus11 sites
- Candiacervus9 sites
- Candiacervus ropalophorus9 sites
- Candiacervus rethymnensis8 sites
- Candiacervus reumeri8 sites
- Cervus7 sites
- Columba7 sites
- Corvus monedula7 sites
- Sinomegaceros7 sites
- Bison6 sites
- Candiacervus devosi6 sites
- Microtus6 sites
- Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi6 sites
- Testudo marginata6 sites
- Athene cretensis5 sites
- Crocidura5 sites
- Crocidura zimmermanni5 sites
- Falco tinnunculus5 sites
- Myodes5 sites
- Tyto alba5 sites
- Bovidae4 sites
- Canis lupus4 sites
- Columba palumbus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Megacerini, 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
16 references- Uniformity in variety: Antler morphology and evolution in a predator-free environment43
- Taxonomy, ancestry and speciation of the endemic Pleistocene deer of Crete compared with the taxoomy ancestry and speciation of Darwin’s finches11
- Die pleistozänen Hirsche der ostmediterranen Inseln Kreta, Kasos, Karpatos und Rhodos (Griechenland)4
- Quaternary vertebrates from Shiriya area, Shimokita Pininsula, northeastern Japan3
- The Island Rule in Large Mammals: Paleontology Meets Ecology2
- Upper Cenozoic bio-magnetic stratigraphy of Central Asian mammalian localities2
- New data on the Pleistocene Cretan deer Candiacervus sp. II (Cervinae, Mammalia)1
- Early Pleistocene equids (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) of Nalaikha, Mongolia, and the emergence of modern Equus Linnaeus, 17581
- [The new species Elephas chaniensis from the submerged Pleistocene deposits of Vamos Cave at Chania, Crete]1
- Nuova specie di cervide del pleistocene di Creta1
- Villafranchian faunal record of Spain1
- Biostratigrapfia de los materiales Plio-Cuaternarios del borde norte de la depresion de Granada1
Each of the 75 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. 4 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 content0
No picture of Megacerini was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Megacerini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megacerini 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 itCervinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Viret 1961