Pseudoprotoceras minor
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudoprotocerasPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Protoceratidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Protoceratidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 39.7 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Pseudoprotoceras minor 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
5 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pseudoprotoceras minor 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.
Pseudoprotoceras minor and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pseudoprotoceras minor and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Hyaenodon montanus3 sites
- Brachyrhynchocyon dodgei2 sites
- Brontotheriidae2 sites
- Eutypomys inexpectatus2 sites
- Hendryomeryx defordi2 sites
- Hyaenodon horridus2 sites
- Menops bakeri2 sites
- Mesohippus bairdi2 sites
- Mesohippus texanus2 sites
- Toxotherium hunteri2 sites
- Adjidaumo minimus1 site
- Aepinacodon americanus1 site
- Aepinacodon deflectus1 site
- Agriochoerus antiquus1 site
- Allops marshi1 site
- Aplodontiidae1 site
- Apternodus mediaevus1 site
- Archaeotherium1 site
- Archaeotherium scotti1 site
- Bathygenys alpha1 site
- Brachyhyops wyomingensis1 site
- Brontops robustus1 site
- Centetodon magnus1 site
- Colodon stovalli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pseudoprotoceras minor, 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
5 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Mammalian paleontology and geology of the Yoder Member, Chadron Formation, east-central Wyoming1
- Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Trans-Pecos Texas. Part I: Vieja Area1
- Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Vieja Group and Buck Hill Group, Trans-Pecos Texas: Protoceratidae, Camelidae, Hypertragulidae1
- Geology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology of the Chadron Formation1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pseudoprotoceras minor 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 Pseudoprotoceras minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudoprotoceras minor 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.
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What may have been alongside itPseudoprotoceras through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilson 1974)