Platygonus oregonensis
No picture of Platygonus oregonensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Platygonus oregonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatygonusPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Platygonus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tayassuidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 Mya and 4.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Platygonus oregonensis 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
1 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
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The named rock units Platygonus oregonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Platygonus oregonensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Platygonus oregonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Borophaginae1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Castor californicus1 site
- Cormohipparion occidentale1 site
- Dinohippus spectans1 site
- Dipoides stirtoni1 site
- Felidae1 site
- Hipparionini1 site
- Hippotherium1 site
- Hypolagus vetus1 site
- Indarctos oregonensis1 site
- Lutravus halli1 site
- Machairodus lahayishupup1 site
- Mammut matthewi1 site
- Martes1 site
- Megalonyx1 site
- Mylagaulidae1 site
- Mylohyus longirostris1 site
- Myotis1 site
- Neohipparion leptode1 site
- Peromyscus1 site
- Platygonus rex1 site
- Pleiolama vera1 site
- Proboscidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Platygonus oregonensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Platygonus oregonensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Platygonus oregonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Platygonus oregonensis 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 itPlatygonus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Colbert 1938)