Merycoidodon bullatus

Merycoidodon bullatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerycoidodonPBDB
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 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 31.8 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 24.7 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesOligocene — about 31 of 31 occurrencesOligocene34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31.8 Mya29.5 Mya34.4 Mya24.2 Mya

31 occurrences of Merycoidodon bullatus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

31 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

2 formations

Brule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 43.71°N, 102.58°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.70°N, 102.50°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°W

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The named rock units Merycoidodon bullatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merycoidodon bullatus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Merycoidodon bullatus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Merycoidodon bullatus, 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

6 references

Each of the 31 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 Merycoidodon bullatus

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Merycoidodon bullatus 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 itMerycoidodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1869)