Odocoileus

Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized deer containing three species native to the Americas. The name, sometimes spelled odocoeleus, is a contraction of the Greek root odont-, meaning "tooth," and -coelus, New Latin for "hollow".

Odocoileus

USDA photo by Scott Bauer · Public Domain · 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
OdocoileiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 24 of 306 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 251 of 306 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 31 of 306 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 12 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 172 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

306 occurrences of Odocoileus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

306 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

37 formations

Palm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBermont — 26.90°N, 82.00°WBermont — 27.00°N, 82.20°WCamp Rice — 32.00°N, 106.70°WCamp Rice — 31.50°N, 105.20°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.29°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 80.80°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WSan Timoteo — 33.90°N, 117.00°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WGlenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.48°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WFloral — 52.20°N, 106.70°WFloral — 52.10°N, 106.70°WSt. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.10°WTemecula Arkose — 33.90°N, 117.00°WPalomas — 33.10°N, 107.30°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WLove — 31.50°N, 105.20°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°WLa Habra — 33.60°N, 117.80°WTurlock Lake — 37.06°N, 120.20°WSeymour — 33.75°N, 99.50°W

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The named rock units Odocoileus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 238 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Odocoileus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Odocoileus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,028 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 294 sites for Odocoileus, and this reads 240 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

183 references

Each of the 306 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. 171 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 content3

Picture of Odocoileus

Credit
USDA photo by Scott Bauer
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Odocoileus virginianus sinaloae · AMNH:Mammals:M-24554

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itOdocoileini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1832