Deinotherium bozasi

Deinotherium bozasi

Heinrich Harder (1858-1935) User Necrophorus on de.wikipedia · Public Domain · 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
DeinotheriumPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Proboscidea
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Proboscidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 36 of 72 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 33 of 72 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 72 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.246 Mya1.8 Mya12.1 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Deinotherium bozasi 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

72 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

16 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.22°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 3.94°N, 36.25°EKoobi Fora — 4.30°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.91°N, 36.38°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 4.00°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.43°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 4.53°N, 35.92°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°EVogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°EChemoigut — 0.65°N, 36.20°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°ESagantole — 10.63°N, 40.54°ESagantole — 10.50°N, 40.58°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.82°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENakali — 1.18°N, 36.37°E

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The named rock units Deinotherium bozasi 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.

Deinotherium bozasi and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Deinotherium bozasi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

507 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Deinotherium bozasi, 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

28 references

Each of the 72 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. 16 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 content1

Picture of Deinotherium bozasi

Credit
Heinrich Harder (1858-1935) User Necrophorus on de.wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Deinotherium bozasi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg 1934