Merycochoerus matthewi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerycochoerusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
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 18.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 14 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18.5 Mya15.98 Mya30 Mya11.1 Mya

14 occurrences of Merycochoerus matthewi 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

14 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

Marsland — 42.40°N, 103.80°WMarsland — 42.00°N, 104.20°WMarsland — 42.62°N, 104.40°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.85°N, 121.27°WJohn Day — 44.76°N, 121.29°WCucaracha — 9.10°N, 79.70°WCucaracha — 9.05°N, 79.67°WTroublesome — 40.20°N, 106.10°WRosebud — 43.30°N, 102.50°W

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The named rock units Merycochoerus matthewi 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.

Merycochoerus matthewi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Merycochoerus matthewi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Merycochoerus matthewi, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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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No picture of Merycochoerus matthewi 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 Merycochoerus matthewi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Merycochoerus matthewi 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 itMerycochoerus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loomis 1924