Miniochoerus gracilis

Miniochoerus gracilis

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
MiniochoerusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 5.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 31.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 4 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 31 of 35 occurrencesOligocene37–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences37.5 Mya31.3 Mya

35 occurrences of Miniochoerus gracilis 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

35 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

3 formations

Brule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 41.80°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°W

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The named rock units Miniochoerus gracilis 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.

Miniochoerus gracilis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Miniochoerus gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Miniochoerus gracilis, 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 35 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 Miniochoerus gracilis

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Miniochoerus gracilis 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 itMiniochoerus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1851)