Paroreodon

Paroreodon is an extinct genus of oreodont of the family Merycoidodontidae, subfamily Merycoidodontinae, endemic to North America during the Oligocene-Miocene subepochs, existing for approximately 10.2 million years.

Paroreodon

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
TicholeptinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 11 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 19 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30 Mya15.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Paroreodon 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

19 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

1 formation

John Day — 44.70°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.83°N, 119.76°WJohn Day — 44.83°N, 119.74°WJohn Day — 44.33°N, 119.57°WJohn Day — 44.79°N, 119.58°WJohn Day — 45.08°N, 119.87°WJohn Day — 44.55°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.59°N, 119.63°W

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The named rock units Paroreodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paroreodon and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Paroreodon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Paroreodon, 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

4 references

Each of the 19 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 Paroreodon

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paroreodon 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 itTicholeptinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thorpe 1921)