Palaeomeryx kaupi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeomeryxPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Palaeomerycidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Palaeomerycidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiocene — about 22 of 22 occurrencesMiocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya11.63 Mya23.5 Mya6.7 Mya

22 occurrences of Palaeomeryx kaupi 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

22 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

5 formations

Studienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EAntonios — 40.50°N, 23.00°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°ECórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°W

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The named rock units Palaeomeryx kaupi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeomeryx kaupi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Palaeomeryx kaupi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Palaeomeryx kaupi, 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

15 references

Each of the 22 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. 3 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 content0

No picture of Palaeomeryx kaupi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeomeryx kaupi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1834