Teleoceras meridianum
No picture of Teleoceras meridianum 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 Teleoceras meridianum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TeleocerasPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Teleoceras
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Teleoceras
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Teleoceras meridianum 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
21 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.
Found in
3 formations
- Fleming Formation11
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group2
- Dove Spring Formation2
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The named rock units Teleoceras meridianum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Teleoceras meridianum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Teleoceras meridianum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
274 taxa- Aphelops megalodus9 sites
- Peraceras hessei9 sites
- Camelidae6 sites
- Merychippus gunteri6 sites
- Calippus proplacidus5 sites
- Peraceras superciliosum5 sites
- Aelurodon ferox4 sites
- Calippus circulus4 sites
- Hipparionini4 sites
- Leptocyon vafer4 sites
- Merychippus insignis4 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius4 sites
- Prosynthetoceras4 sites
- Protohippus perditus4 sites
- Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus4 sites
- Teleoceras medicornutum4 sites
- Alligator3 sites
- Cupidinimus nebraskensis3 sites
- Elaphe nebraskensis3 sites
- Hypolagus parviplicatus3 sites
- Lepisosteus3 sites
- Neonatrix elongata3 sites
- Prosynthetoceras francisi3 sites
- Ramoceros osborni3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Teleoceras meridianum, 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
4 references- Miocene rhinoceroses from the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain14
- Teleoceras minor (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from the Miocene of Nebraska4
- The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses2
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
Each of the 21 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 content0
No picture of Teleoceras meridianum 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 Teleoceras meridianum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Teleoceras meridianum was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itTeleoceras through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1865)