Paracosoryx nevadensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacosoryxPBDB
- 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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Paracosoryx nevadensis 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paracosoryx nevadensis 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.
Paracosoryx nevadensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paracosoryx nevadensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Aphelops2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Canidae2 sites
- Desmatippus avus2 sites
- Dromomeryx borealis2 sites
- Merychippus brevidontus2 sites
- Tayassuinae2 sites
- Teleoceras medicornutum2 sites
- Ticholeptus zygomaticus2 sites
- <Korth dipodomyine>1 site
- Achlyoscapter longirostris1 site
- Acritohippus isonesus1 site
- Alluvisorex arcadentes1 site
- Amphicyoninae1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Balantiomys oregonensis1 site
- Brachycrus laticeps1 site
- Castoridae1 site
- Copemys barstowensis1 site
- Copemys pagei1 site
- Domninoides1 site
- Dromomerycidae1 site
- Equinae1 site
- Hesperogaulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paracosoryx nevadensis, 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
3 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- The Nevada Miocene and Pliocene mammalian faunas as faunal units1
- A Miocene Mammalian Fauna From Sucker Creek, Southeastern Oregon1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paracosoryx nevadensis, 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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What may have been alongside itParacosoryx through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Merriam 1911)