Merycodontinae

Merycondontinae is a subfamily of pronghorn that arose during the middle of the Miocene and became extinct by the end of that period.

Merycodontinae

Claire H. from New York City, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AntilocapridaePBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB, for Antilocapridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Antilocapridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 210 occurrencesMiocene — about 208 of 210 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 210 occurrencesPliocene24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 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 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 14 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 14 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 14 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 14 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 14 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 19 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 21 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 21 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 21 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 16 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.9–7.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16.3 Mya5.333 Mya23.5 Mya3.1 Mya

210 occurrences of Merycodontinae 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

210 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

37 formations

Valentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 40.10°N, 98.50°WValentine — 42.60°N, 98.00°WMR Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WBopesta — 35.19°N, 118.28°WBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WBopesta — 35.18°N, 118.24°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 43.20°N, 100.70°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 43.40°N, 100.60°WNS Caliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.53°N, 97.74°WBox Butte — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBox Butte — 42.20°N, 103.10°WRaine Ranch — 41.00°N, 115.50°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WCaliente — 34.30°N, 119.00°WBrowns Park — 40.60°N, 108.10°WEllensburg — 46.50°N, 120.40°WEllensburg — 46.46°N, 120.64°Wreferred Chamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBarstow — 35.07°N, 117.08°WJuchipila — 21.71°N, 102.96°WJuchipila — 21.73°N, 102.90°WOlcott — 42.19°N, 103.73°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WPawnee Creek Beds — 40.80°N, 103.10°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.77°WColter — 43.90°N, 110.80°WSalt Lake — 41.50°N, 112.90°WHepburn's Mesa — 45.80°N, 110.50°W

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The named rock units Merycodontinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merycodontinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Merycodontinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

657 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 200 sites for Merycodontinae, 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

31 references

Each of the 210 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. 19 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 Merycodontinae

Credit
Claire H. from New York City, USA
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1904)