Protoreodon minimus
No picture of Protoreodon minimus 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 Protoreodon minimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtoreodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Agriochoeridae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Agriochoeridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Protoreodon minimus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- White River Formation1
- Chadron Formation · White River Group1
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The named rock units Protoreodon minimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protoreodon minimus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Protoreodon minimus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Brontotheriidae3 sites
- Colodon cingulatus2 sites
- Cylindrodon2 sites
- Limnenetes platyceps2 sites
- Oreonetes anceps2 sites
- <Novacek leptictid>1 site
- Apternodus baladontus1 site
- Ardynomys occidentalis1 site
- Bathygenys alpha1 site
- Brachyrhynchocyon1 site
- Colodon1 site
- Copedelphys titanelix1 site
- Cryptoryctes kayi1 site
- Daphoenictis1 site
- Dolocylindrodon medius1 site
- Epoicotherium unicum1 site
- Eutypomys inexpectatus1 site
- Heliscomys (Syphyriomys) ostranderi1 site
- Helodermoides tuberculatus1 site
- Herpetotherium valens1 site
- Hesperocyon1 site
- Hesperocyon gregarius1 site
- Hyaenodon1 site
- Hyracodon priscidens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protoreodon minimus, 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
3 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- The Tertiary of Montana1
- Fossil Mammalia of the White River beds of Montana1
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
Media content0
No picture of Protoreodon minimus 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 Protoreodon minimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protoreodon minimus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProtoreodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douglass 1902)