Tapiriscus pannonicus

Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
- TapiriscusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Tapiridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tapiridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 825 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8.725 Mya and 7.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tapiriscus pannonicus 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Tapiriscus pannonicus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tapiriscus pannonicus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Allohyaena kadici1 site
- Archaeodesmana vinea1 site
- Chelydropsis1 site
- Crusafontina kormosi1 site
- Desmanella rietscheli1 site
- Dinosorex1 site
- Emydidae1 site
- Galerix1 site
- Lanthanotherium sanmigueli1 site
- Plesiodimylus chantrei1 site
- Talpa gilothi1 site
- Talpa vallesensis1 site
- Tapirus priscus1 site
- Testudo1 site
- Trionyx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tapiriscus pannonicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Tapiriscus pannonicus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tapiriscus pannonicus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTapiriscus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1951