Capromeryx furcifer

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CapromeryxPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Antilocapridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 81 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Capromeryx furcifer 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Capromeryx furcifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Capromeryx furcifer and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Capromeryx furcifer and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
232 taxa- Equus6 sites
- Canis latrans5 sites
- Geomys bursarius5 sites
- Mammuthus columbi5 sites
- Chaetodipus hispidus4 sites
- Equus calobatus4 sites
- Sylvilagus4 sites
- Aenocyon dirus3 sites
- Camelops hesternus3 sites
- Castoroides3 sites
- Cynomys niobrarius3 sites
- Equus conversidens3 sites
- Equus mexicanus3 sites
- Hemiauchenia3 sites
- Lepus3 sites
- Neotoma3 sites
- Odocoileus3 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus3 sites
- Ondatra zibethicus3 sites
- Onychomys leucogaster3 sites
- Paramylodon harlani3 sites
- Platygonus3 sites
- Platygonus compressus3 sites
- Camelops2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Capromeryx furcifer, 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
6 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals2
- Deer (Cervidae) and Pronghorn (Antilocapridae) from the Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Terapa Local Fauna, Sonora, Mexico1
- Late Pleistocene and early Recent mammals from Fowlkes Cave, southern Culberson County, Texas1
- Hintlian, 19751
- Martin, 19691
- Two Late Pleistocene Faunas from Southwestern Kansas1
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 content1

Picture of Capromeryx furcifer
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Capromeryx furcifer was found in Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itCapromeryx through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1902