Moropus hollandi
No picture of Moropus hollandi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Moropus hollandi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MoropusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.1 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Moropus hollandi 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
- Marsland Formation · Hemingford Group2
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The named rock units Moropus hollandi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Moropus hollandi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Moropus hollandi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Merychyus minimus3 sites
- Cynarctoides luskensis2 sites
- Daphoenodon falkenbachi2 sites
- Merycochoerus matthewi2 sites
- Stenomylus gracilis2 sites
- Tanymykter brachyodontus2 sites
- Blastomerycinae1 site
- Borophaginae1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Cynarctoides acridens1 site
- Desmatippus nebrascensis1 site
- Desmocyon thomsoni1 site
- Diceratherium1 site
- Gregorymys riggsi1 site
- Megalictis ferox1 site
- Megalictis simplicidens1 site
- Menoceras arikarense1 site
- Merychyus arenarum1 site
- Merycoides stouti1 site
- Osbornodon brachypus1 site
- Oxydactylus longipes1 site
- Phlaocyon minor1 site
- Syndyoceras cooki1 site
- Tayassuidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Moropus hollandi, 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
2 references- Reevaluation of Early Miocene North American Moropus (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae, Schizotheriinae)2
- A new species of Moropus (M. Hollandi) from the base of the middle Miocene of western Nebraska1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Moropus hollandi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Moropus hollandi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Moropus hollandi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMoropus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peterson 1913