Ronzotherium

Ronzotherium is an extinct genus of perissodactyl mammal from the family Rhinocerotidae. The name derives from the hill of 'Ronzon', the French locality near Le Puy-en-Velay at which it was first discovered, and the Greek suffix 'therium' meaning 'beast'. At present 5 species have been identified from several localities in Europe and Asia, spanning the Late Eocene to Upper Oligocene.

Ronzotherium

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhinocerotiniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 5 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya27.3 Mya38.2 Mya22.5 Mya

32 occurrences of Ronzotherium on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

32 occurrences

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

6 formations

Ergilin Dzo — 43.73°N, 111.25°EErgilin Dzo — 43.37°N, 108.66°EBohlen — 51.19°N, 12.46°EEbnater Schichten — 47.27°N, 9.12°EWintersberg Schichten — 47.15°N, 9.05°EViens Marl — 43.93°N, 5.68°ELower Hamstead Beds — 50.70°N, 1.50°W

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The named rock units Ronzotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ronzotherium and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Ronzotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

273 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Ronzotherium, 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

17 references

Each of the 32 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Ronzotherium

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ronzotherium 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRhinocerotini through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aymard 1854