Deinotherium giganteum

Deinotherium giganteum

Durji · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
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 8.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesMiocene — about 42 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 48 occurrencesPliocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.6–7.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.9–7.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13.82 Mya5.333 Mya23.5 Mya3.1 Mya

48 occurrences of Deinotherium giganteum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

48 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

8 formations

Balta sands — 49.17°N, 29.16°EBalta sands — 48.57°N, 28.83°EErgene — 41.20°N, 27.83°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°ENea Messimvria — 40.77°N, 22.79°ERavin de Ratavoux — 43.78°N, 5.45°EFaneromeni — 35.16°N, 26.11°EGnilyane — 42.80°N, 23.06°E

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The named rock units Deinotherium giganteum 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.

Deinotherium giganteum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Deinotherium giganteum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

672 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Deinotherium giganteum, 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

29 references

Each of the 48 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. 17 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 Deinotherium giganteum

Credit
Durji
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Deinotherium giganteum · NHMUK:PAL:PV OR 1544

3D model

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

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. Kaup 1829