Trigonias osborni

Uncredited · 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
- TrigoniasPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Trigonias osborni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
16 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Trigonias osborni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trigonias osborni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Trigonias osborni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
213 taxa- Brontotheriidae6 sites
- Adjidaumo minimus4 sites
- Brachyrhynchocyon dodgei4 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius4 sites
- Hyracodon4 sites
- Ischyromys veterior4 sites
- Megalagus brachyodon4 sites
- Palaeolagus temnodon4 sites
- Pseudocylindrodon neglectus4 sites
- <Novacek leptictid>3 sites
- Aulolithomys bounites3 sites
- Daphoenus3 sites
- Eomyidae3 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax3 sites
- Herpetotherium valens3 sites
- Hyracodon priscidens3 sites
- Leptomeryx3 sites
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii3 sites
- Mesohippus westoni3 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus3 sites
- Subhyracodon mitis3 sites
- Aepinacodon americanus2 sites
- Agriochoerus2 sites
- Apternodus mediaevus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Trigonias osborni, 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
10 references- New material for the study of evolution: a series of primitive rhinoceros skulls (Trigonias) from the Lower Oligocene of Colorado6
- The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses2
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- Eocene-Oligocene faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan1
- Correlation of the early Oligocene (Chadronian) in northwestern Nebraska1
- Geology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology of the Chadron Formation1
- Uranium in the Mayoworth area, Johnson County, Wyoming--a preliminary report1
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado1
- Some early Tertiary rhinoceroses and hyracodonts1
- Some new and little known fossil vertebrates1
Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Trigonias osborni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Trigonias osborni 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.
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What may have been alongside itTrigonias through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lucas 1900