Archaeotherium

Archaeotherium

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
EntelodontidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Entelodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Entelodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Length
2 mWikidata
Mass
150 kgWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 16.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 27 of 67 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 67 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 67 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 9 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 9 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya18.5 Mya37.5 Mya15.8 Mya

67 occurrences of Archaeotherium 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

67 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

6 formations

Brule — 40.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 46.90°N, 102.80°WBrule — 42.00°N, 104.20°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WJohn Day — 44.90°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.60°N, 119.62°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WJohn Day — 44.66°N, 120.24°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.40°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WWhite River — 40.97°N, 106.22°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WTurtle Butte — 43.07°N, 99.83°W

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The named rock units Archaeotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeotherium and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Archaeotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

457 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Archaeotherium, 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

33 references

Each of the 67 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. 21 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 content3

Picture of Archaeotherium

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Archaeotherium mortoni · UCM:Paleontology:UCM:FossilVert:20455

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEntelodontidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1850