Paratylopus

Paratylopus is an extinct genus of camelid, endemic to North America. It lived from the Oligocene to the Middle Miocene 33.9—16.0 Mya, existing for approximately 18 million years. Fossils have been found in western Wyoming, and from eastern Nebraska to northeastern Colorado and southwestern South Dakota.

Paratylopus

Ted Fremd · 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
CamelidaePBDB
Diet
browser, browserPBDB, for Camelidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 22 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33.9 Mya18.5 Mya37.5 Mya15.8 Mya

22 occurrences of Paratylopus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

3 formations

Brule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.00°N, 104.50°WJohn Day — 44.70°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.83°N, 119.74°WJohn Day — 44.72°N, 119.66°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°W

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The named rock units Paratylopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paratylopus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Paratylopus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Paratylopus, 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

7 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. 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

Picture of Paratylopus

Credit
Ted Fremd
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paratylopus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCamelidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1904)