Mesogaulus

Mesogaulus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
MylagaulinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 16.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiocene — about 26 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18.5 Mya – 16.3 Mya23.6 Mya4.8 Mya

26 occurrences of Mesogaulus 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

26 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

11 formations

Arikaree — 43.20°N, 108.20°WArikaree — 43.20°N, 107.10°WRunningwater — 42.49°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.75°N, 102.00°WRunningwater — 42.70°N, 102.10°WRunningwater — 42.45°N, 102.96°WRunningwater — 42.20°N, 103.10°WPawnee Creek — 40.80°N, 104.20°WPawnee Creek — 40.90°N, 103.28°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WSheep Creek — 42.15°N, 103.70°WRosebud — 43.30°N, 102.50°WCypress Hills — 49.60°N, 109.00°WHepburn's Mesa — 45.80°N, 110.50°WTroublesome — 40.20°N, 106.10°WDeep River — 46.50°N, 111.00°WMarsland — 42.40°N, 103.80°WMadison Valley — 45.93°N, 111.29°W

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The named rock units Mesogaulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mesogaulus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mesogaulus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Mesogaulus, 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

11 references

Each of the 26 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 Mesogaulus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Mesogaulus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMylagaulinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riggs 1899