Arvernoceros
Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- CervinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Cervidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 2.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 129 ka.
8 occurrences of Arvernoceros on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene79%
- Pleistocene21%
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.
Arvernoceros and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Arvernoceros and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Croizetoceros ramosus5 sites
- Anancus arvernensis4 sites
- Gazella4 sites
- Mimomys4 sites
- Pliotragus ardeus4 sites
- Praeelaphus perrieri4 sites
- Stephanorhinus etruscus4 sites
- Acinonyx pardinensis3 sites
- Canidae3 sites
- Chasmaporthetes lunensis3 sites
- Enhydrictis ardea3 sites
- Leptobos3 sites
- Lynx issiodorensis3 sites
- Metacervocerus pardinensis3 sites
- Pliocrocuta perrieri3 sites
- Procapreolus cusanus3 sites
- Vulpes alopecoides3 sites
- Gazellospira2 sites
- Homotherium crenatidens2 sites
- Hystrix primigenia2 sites
- Mammut borsoni2 sites
- Megalovis2 sites
- Megantereon cultridens2 sites
- Nyctereutes megamastoides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Arvernoceros, 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
7 references- Principaux gisements villafranchiens de France: Listes fauniques et biostratigraphie2
- Pliocene Volcanic Terrain of the South Caucasus: The Missing Link in Eurasian Palaeobiogeography1
- The Last Appearance Datum of Hipparion in Western Europe: magnetostratigraphy along the Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in the Villarroya Basin (Northern Spain)1
- Biochronology and evolution of the Early Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene mammalian faunas of Romania1
- Catalogo de mamiferos pliocenos del yacimiento de Villarroya (La Rioja), en la coleccion del Museo Geominero1
- Stratigraphy of Neogene mammals in Poland1
- Pliocene and Pleistocene mammalian biostratigraphy in southeastern Transylvania (Romania)1
Each of the 8 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 content1
Picture of Arvernoceros
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Arvernoceros 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCervinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heintz 1968