Miotragocerus

Miotragocerus is an extinct genus of bovine bovid native to Eurasia during the latter part of the Miocene epoch, from around 13 to 6 million years ago, spanning from Europe to China.

Miotragocerus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
BovinaePBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesMiocene — about 52 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 54 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 54 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya7.246 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

54 occurrences of Miotragocerus 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

54 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

24 formations

Mytilinii — 37.75°N, 26.89°EMytilinii — 37.74°N, 26.89°EPikermi — 38.04°N, 23.72°EPikermi — 38.00°N, 23.95°ERavin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.45°ERavin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.42°EChinji — 32.68°N, 72.37°EChinji — 32.93°N, 71.66°ENikiti — 40.23°N, 23.70°EBeglia — 34.33°N, 8.41°EBeglia — 34.20°N, 8.70°EOlesa-Les Fonts alluvial system — 41.54°N, 2.06°ENagri — 32.77°N, 72.50°EDhok Pathan — 33.63°N, 72.52°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°EBaynunah — 24.00°N, 52.33°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WAgha Jari — 34.48°N, 44.63°EKhurdkabul — 34.32°N, 69.42°EAlfambra — 40.50°N, 1.02°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°ETuglu — 40.61°N, 33.63°EChersonian — 47.25°N, 28.69°ETriglia — 40.03°N, 23.47°EMakrygialos — 40.48°N, 22.48°ELithostratigraphic Unit B — 39.42°N, 22.65°EDytiko — 40.88°N, 22.55°E

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The named rock units Miotragocerus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Miotragocerus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Miotragocerus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

739 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Miotragocerus, 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

40 references

Each of the 54 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 Miotragocerus

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

No 3D scan of Miotragocerus 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stromer 1928