Bootherium

Bootherium is an extinct bovid genus from the Middle to Late Pleistocene of North America which contains a single species, Bootherium bombifrons. Vernacular names for Bootherium include Harlan's muskox, woodox, woodland muskox, helmeted muskox, or bonnet-headed muskox.

Bootherium

Daderot · Public Domain · 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
CapriniPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 645 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesPleistocene — about 45 of 45 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 45 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences774 ka129 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

45 occurrences of Bootherium on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

45 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

5 formations

Floral — 52.10°N, 106.70°WFloral — 50.80°N, 103.90°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WCanepatch — 33.68°N, 78.88°WWaccamaw — 33.61°N, 78.97°WWando — 33.11°N, 79.95°W

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The named rock units Bootherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bootherium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bootherium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Bootherium, 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

31 references

Each of the 45 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. 19 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 content2

Picture of Bootherium

Credit
Daderot
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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.

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 itCaprini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harlan 1825