Turpanotherium elegans

No picture of Turpanotherium elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turpanotherium elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurpanotheriumPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Ceratomorpha
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratomorpha
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocene27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.8 Mya15.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Turpanotherium elegans on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

5 occurrences

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

2 formations

Taoshuyuanzi — 45.87°N, 90.17°EXianshuihe — 36.06°N, 103.79°EXianshuihe — 36.20°N, 103.44°E

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The named rock units Turpanotherium elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Turpanotherium elegans and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Turpanotherium elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Turpanotherium elegans, 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 reference

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Turpanotherium elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turpanotherium elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTurpanotherium through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Qiu and Wang 2007