Amphitragulus

Amphitragulus is an extinct genus of Artiodactyla, endemic to Europe during the early Miocene. It has been found in Aragon (Spain), Ronheim (Germany), Sardinia (Italy), France and Kazakhstan and range from 33 - 15.97 million years old.

Amphitragulus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PalaeomerycidaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Palaeomerycidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Palaeomerycidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 26 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya15.98 Mya57 Mya6 Mya

26 occurrences of Amphitragulus 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

26 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

4 formations

Aral — 46.80°N, 60.58°EAral — 50.30°N, 57.18°EHsanda Gol — 45.29°N, 102.09°EChitarwata — 28.85°N, 69.13°EKnauermolasse — 47.32°N, 7.70°E

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The named rock units Amphitragulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphitragulus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Amphitragulus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

406 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Amphitragulus, 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

16 references

Each of the 26 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. 4 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 Amphitragulus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amphitragulus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itPalaeomerycidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1847