Paracosoryx
No picture of Paracosoryx was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata and 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 Paracosoryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AntilocapridaePBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
35 occurrences of Paracosoryx 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
35 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
18 formations
- Barstow Formation5
- Arikaree Formation4
- Wood Mountain Formation3
- Dove Spring Formation3
- Sheep Creek Formation2
- Box Butte Formation2
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The named rock units Paracosoryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paracosoryx and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paracosoryx and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
311 taxa- Camelidae9 sites
- Aphelops megalodus7 sites
- Dromomeryx borealis7 sites
- Microtomarctus conferta7 sites
- Protomarctus optatus7 sites
- Acritohippus isonesus6 sites
- Archaeolaginae6 sites
- Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) wilsoni6 sites
- Hypohippus osborni6 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius6 sites
- Ticholeptus zygomaticus6 sites
- Aelurodon asthenostylus5 sites
- Brachycrus laticeps5 sites
- Equinae5 sites
- Hypohippus5 sites
- Merychippus brevidontus5 sites
- Miospermophilus wyomingensis5 sites
- Mustelidae5 sites
- Paracynarctus kelloggi5 sites
- Rhinocerotidae5 sites
- Teleoceras medicornutum5 sites
- Acritohippus stylodontus4 sites
- Alphagaulus vetus4 sites
- Brachyerix macrotis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Paracosoryx, 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
12 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals12
- Horned ruminants of North America6
- Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America4
- Miocene biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Dove Spring Formation, Mojave Desert, California, and characterization of the Clarendonian mammal age (late Miocene) in California3
- Miocene mammals of the Split Rock area, Granite Mountains basin, central Wyoming3
- Magnetostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, and Tectonic Rotation of the Miocene Caliente Formation, Ventura County, California1
- The Massacre Lake local fauna (Mammalia, Hemingfordian) from northwestern Washoe County, Nevada1
- Late Cenozoic sedimentation and deformation in northern Colorado and adjoining areas1
- Lewis, 19691
- A revision of the geology and paleontology of the Bijou Hills, South Dakota1
- The Nevada Miocene and Pliocene mammalian faunas as faunal units1
- A Miocene Mammalian Fauna From Sucker Creek, Southeastern Oregon1
Each of the 35 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Paracosoryx wilsoni · amnh:fam:32887
No picture of Paracosoryx was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata and 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 Paracosoryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAntilocapridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frick 1937)