Spirocerus wongi
No picture of Spirocerus wongi 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 Spirocerus wongi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpirocerusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Spirocerus wongi on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene91%
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.
Spirocerus wongi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Spirocerus wongi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Equus sanmeniensis4 sites
- Ochotona4 sites
- Allactaga2 sites
- Allophaiomys pliocaenicus2 sites
- Bison2 sites
- Bison palaeosinensis2 sites
- Canis chihliensis2 sites
- Citellus2 sites
- Elaphurus bifurcatus2 sites
- Elasmotherium2 sites
- Eucladoceros boulei2 sites
- Felis2 sites
- Gazella sinensis2 sites
- Nyctereutes2 sites
- Ochotonoides2 sites
- Ovibovini2 sites
- Ovis shantungensis2 sites
- Pachycrocuta brevirostris2 sites
- Paracamelus gigas2 sites
- Rhinocerotidae2 sites
- Sus lydekkeri2 sites
- Acinonyx1 site
- Alticola1 site
- Arvicolinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spirocerus wongi, 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- The Late Cenozoic Faunistic complexes of Transbaikalia with special reference to the micromammalia2
- New carnivoran remains from the Early Pleistocene Shanshenmiaozui site in Nihewan Basin, northern China1
- Les mammifères fossiles de Nihowan (Chine)1
Each of the 4 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 Spirocerus wongi 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 Spirocerus wongi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spirocerus wongi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSpirocerus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau 1930