Ramoceros osborni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RamocerosPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 3.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 4.7 Mya.
11 occurrences of Ramoceros osborni 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
11 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
2 formations
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group5
- Pawnee Creek Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Ramoceros osborni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ramoceros osborni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ramoceros osborni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
219 taxa- Ustatochoerus medius6 sites
- Aelurodon ferox5 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis5 sites
- Leptocyon vafer5 sites
- Copemys longidens4 sites
- Domninoides valentinensis4 sites
- Elaphe nebraskensis4 sites
- Eucastor tortus4 sites
- Hipparionini4 sites
- Merychippus insignis4 sites
- Metechinus amplior4 sites
- Mylagaulidae4 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius4 sites
- Peraceras superciliosum4 sites
- Procamelus occidentalis4 sites
- Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus4 sites
- Trilophodon osborni4 sites
- Alluvisorex3 sites
- Archaeolaginae3 sites
- Bassariscus antiquus3 sites
- Calippus placidus3 sites
- Carpocyon compressus3 sites
- Emydinae3 sites
- Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) orthopygia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ramoceros osborni, 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
6 references- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska5
- Horned ruminants of North America2
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska1
- Tertiary stratigraphy and the Frick Collection of fossil vertebrates from north-central Nebraska1
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado1
Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Ramoceros osborni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ramoceros osborni 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 itRamoceros through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1904)