Peraceras

Peraceras is an extinct genus of rhinocerotids endemic to North America. It lived during the Miocene, living from 16.0 to 10.3 mya, existing for approximately 6 million years.

Peraceras

American Museum of Natural History.; Cope, E. D.; Geological Survey (U.S.); Matthew, William Diller · 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
AceratheriinaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 12.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 76 occurrencesMiocene — about 76 of 76 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 76 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16.3 Mya12.5 Mya23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

76 occurrences of Peraceras 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

76 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

17 formations

Valentine — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 42.49°N, 98.11°WValentine — 42.80°N, 99.70°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WFleming — 30.72°N, 95.28°WFleming — 30.61°N, 95.13°WFleming — 30.70°N, 94.70°WFleming — 30.30°N, 95.70°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.80°N, 94.30°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WTesuque — 36.50°N, 107.00°WZia — 35.70°N, 107.00°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WDove Spring — 35.37°N, 117.99°WOlcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WPawnee Creek — 40.90°N, 103.28°WMadison Valley — 45.93°N, 111.29°WBrowns Park — 40.60°N, 108.10°WTroublesome — 40.20°N, 106.10°WVirgin Valley — 41.10°N, 117.80°WTemblor — 36.54°N, 120.55°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WSanta Fe — 36.50°N, 107.00°WFort Randall — 43.10°N, 98.30°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WBarstow — 35.06°N, 117.08°W

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The named rock units Peraceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peraceras and its relatives

Miocene

Where Peraceras and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

569 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Peraceras, 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

19 references

Each of the 76 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. 7 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 Peraceras

Credit
American Museum of Natural History.; Cope, E. D.; Geological Survey (U.S.); Matthew, William Diller
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peraceras 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 itAceratheriinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1880