Merychyus relictus

No picture of Merychyus relictus 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 Merychyus relictus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerychyusPBDB
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 6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.5 Mya and 12.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 22 of 22 occurrencesMiocene19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19 Mya12 Mya

22 occurrences of Merychyus relictus 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

22 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

3 formations

Olcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WOlcott — 42.19°N, 103.73°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°W

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The named rock units Merychyus relictus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merychyus relictus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Merychyus relictus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

155 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Merychyus relictus, 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

3 references

Each of the 22 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 Merychyus relictus 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 Merychyus relictus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Merychyus relictus 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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What may have been alongside itMerychyus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew and Cook 1909)