Miocepphus mcclungi

Miocepphus mcclungi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MiocepphusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.2 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 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20.45 Mya7.246 Mya23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

13 occurrences of Miocepphus mcclungi 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

13 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

Calvert — 37.77°N, 77.28°WCalvert — 37.77°N, 77.37°WCalvert — 37.66°N, 77.11°WCalvert — 38.55°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 37.97°N, 76.79°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.87°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.85°WCalvert — 37.62°N, 77.18°WEastover — 37.77°N, 77.27°WEastover — 38.16°N, 76.83°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WChoptank — 38.43°N, 76.43°W

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

Miocepphus mcclungi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Miocepphus mcclungi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Miocepphus mcclungi, 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 13 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 Miocepphus mcclungi

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Miocepphus mcclungi 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 itMiocepphus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wetmore 1940