Phenacocoelus kayi
No picture of Phenacocoelus kayi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phenacocoelus kayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhenacocoelusPBDB
- 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 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.1 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Phenacocoelus kayi 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 occurrencesThese 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
- Marsland Formation · Hemingford Group1
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The named rock units Phenacocoelus kayi 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.
Phenacocoelus kayi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Phenacocoelus kayi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Adilophontes brachykolos1 site
- Cynarctoides acridens1 site
- Cynarctoides luskensis1 site
- Daphoenodon falkenbachi1 site
- Desmocyon thomsoni1 site
- Megalictis ferox1 site
- Menoceras arikarense1 site
- Merychyus arenarum1 site
- Merychyus minimus1 site
- Pseudoblastomeryx advena1 site
- Stenomylus gracilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Phenacocoelus kayi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Phenacocoelinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts2
- An early Miocene land mammal (Oreodonta) from a marine limestone in northern Florida1
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. 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
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No picture of Phenacocoelus kayi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phenacocoelus kayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phenacocoelus kayi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhenacocoelus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schultz and Falkenbach 1950