Merycodus warreni

Merycodus warreni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerycodusPBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB, for Merycodus
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Antilocapridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 870 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 4.7 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–8.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.1–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.8–4.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.5 Mya – 11.63 Mya23.5 Mya4.2 Mya

14 occurrences of Merycodus warreni 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

4 formations

Valentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WPawnee Creek — 40.80°N, 104.20°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 105.10°WBrowns Park — 40.60°N, 108.10°W

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The named rock units Merycodus warreni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merycodus warreni and its relatives

Miocene

Where Merycodus warreni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Merycodus warreni, 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

5 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

Media content1

Picture of Merycodus warreni

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Merycodus warreni 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 itMerycodus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1858)