Sphenophalos garciae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphenophalosPBDB
- 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 most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 9.4 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sphenophalos garciae 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
2 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
- Peace River Formation · Hawthorn Group2
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The named rock units Sphenophalos garciae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphenophalos garciae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sphenophalos garciae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Desmathyus brachydontus2 sites
- Dinohippus mexicanus2 sites
- Hexameryx simpsoni2 sites
- Testudines2 sites
- Arctonasua eurybates1 site
- Ardea polkensis1 site
- Astrohippus stockii1 site
- Borophagus hilli1 site
- Borophagus pugnator1 site
- Calippus1 site
- Carpocyon limosus1 site
- Cormohipparion emsliei1 site
- Corystosiren varguezi1 site
- Delphinidae1 site
- Dipoides1 site
- Enhydritherium terraenovae1 site
- Felis rexroadensis1 site
- Floridameryx floridanus1 site
- Hemiauchenia edensis1 site
- Mammut matthewi1 site
- Megantereon hesperus1 site
- Muridae1 site
- Mylohyus elmorei1 site
- Nannippus aztecus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sphenophalos garciae, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Sphenophalos garciae 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 Sphenophalos garciae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphenophalos garciae 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 itSphenophalos through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Webb 1973)