Pediomeryx

Pediomeryx is an extinct genus of artiodactyl, of the family Dromomerycidae, endemic to North America. It lived during the Late Miocene Early Pliocene 10.3—4.9 Ma, existing for approximately 5 million years. Fossils have been recovered from the Midway Site in Florida, the Gray Fossil Site in northeast Tennessee, several sites in Nebraska and Wyoming, Saskatchewan, and Boron, California.

Pediomeryx

Noles1984 · CC0 · 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
CranioceratiniPBDB
Diet
browser, grazerPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromomerycidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 17 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 20 occurrencesPliocene13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–8.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.7–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–8.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.1–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–5.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.4–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–4.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.8–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4 Mya5.333 Mya13 Mya3.1 Mya

20 occurrences of Pediomeryx 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

20 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

8 formations

Ash Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WAlachua — 29.10°N, 82.30°WKern River — 35.30°N, 118.50°WMt. Eden — 33.90°N, 117.00°WMehrten — 37.60°N, 120.80°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°W

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The named rock units Pediomeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pediomeryx and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pediomeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

700 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Pediomeryx, 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

14 references

Each of the 20 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. 2 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 content1

Picture of Pediomeryx

Credit
Noles1984
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pediomeryx 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 itCranioceratini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stirton 1936