Zygolophodon turicensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZygolophodonPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Mammutidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Mammutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 5.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 7.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
33 occurrences of Zygolophodon turicensis 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
33 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
4 formations
- Studienka Formation · Baden Group3
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
- Yatagan Formation1
- Xiaolongtan Formation1
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The named rock units Zygolophodon turicensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Zygolophodon turicensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Zygolophodon turicensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
506 taxa- Anchitherium aurelianense6 sites
- Gomphotherium angustidens6 sites
- Aceratherium incisivum5 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum5 sites
- Dicrocerus elegans5 sites
- Dorcatherium crassum5 sites
- Ophisaurus5 sites
- Prodeinotherium bavaricum5 sites
- Proscapanus sansaniensis5 sites
- Amphicyon4 sites
- Aureliachoerus aurelianensis4 sites
- Chalicotherium grande4 sites
- Dicerorhinus4 sites
- Hemicyon sansaniensis4 sites
- Hyaena4 sites
- Lagomeryx4 sites
- Miopanthera lorteti4 sites
- Palaeomeryx4 sites
- Palaeotragus rouenii4 sites
- Phocidae4 sites
- Plesiaceratherium lumiarense4 sites
- Rhinoceros4 sites
- Tetralophodon longirostris4 sites
- Vipera4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Zygolophodon turicensis, 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
19 references- New zygolophodonts from Miocene of China and their taxonomy7
- Temporal and spatial distribution of Miocene mammals in the western Carpatians (Slovakia)4
- Catalogue of Tertiary Fossil Sites of the Land Mammals in the U.S.S.R.3
- La succession des faunes de mammiferes miocenes de Pontigne (Maine-et-Loire, France)2
- Le gisement a mammiferes miocenes de Castelnau-d'Arbieu (Gers). Donnees nouvelles et implications biostratigraphiques2
- Les mastodontes miocenes du Bassin aquitain: une mise au point taxonomique2
- A Zygolophodon turicensis (Proboscidea, Mammalia) mandible fragment from the Kale-Tavas basin (Denizli, Turkey)1
- Associatia de vertebrate din punctul fosilifer Sarmatian mediu Otovasca (Mun. Chisinau) si importanta oor biostratigraphfica1
- Turtles Protestudo bessarabica from the Late Miocene of Ukraine1
- The late Miocene mammal faunas of the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)1
- Le site paléontologique du Grand Morier (Pont-Boutard, Indre-et-Loire, France): contexte géologique et détail biostratigraphique des formations cénozoïques à partir des assemblages de vertébrés fossiles1
- Basal middle Miocene Listriodontinae (Suidae, Artiodactyla) from Madrid, Spain1
Each of the 33 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 Zygolophodon turicensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Zygolophodon turicensis 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 itZygolophodon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schintz 1824)