Anisodon

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
- ChalicotheriinaePBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 5.09 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Anisodon 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Anisodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anisodon and its relatives
MioceneWhere Anisodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Choerolophodon pentelici6 sites
- Gazella5 sites
- Microstonyx major5 sites
- Prostrepsiceros5 sites
- Adcrocuta eximia4 sites
- Dorcatherium4 sites
- Ictitherium4 sites
- Protoryx4 sites
- Protragelaphus4 sites
- Acerorhinus3 sites
- Anancus3 sites
- Bohlinia attica3 sites
- Ceratotherium3 sites
- Cremohipparion3 sites
- Ctenocervus3 sites
- Deinotherium giganteum3 sites
- Helladotherium3 sites
- Hipparion macedonicum3 sites
- Hippotherium3 sites
- Hyracoidea3 sites
- Konobelodon atticus3 sites
- Machairodus3 sites
- Miotragocerus gaudryi3 sites
- Mustelidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Anisodon, 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- A hominid tooth from Bulgaria: The last pre-human hominid of continental Europe3
- New material of Chalicotheriidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Axios Valley, Macedonia (Greece) with the description of a new species2
- 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
- Un crâne de chalicothère (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) du Miocène supérieur de Macédoine (Grèce): remarques sur la phylogénie des Chalicotheriinae1
Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Anisodon
- 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- MWintersberger
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChalicotheriinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lartet 1851