Deinotherium proavum
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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 most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Deinotherium proavum 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Deinotherium proavum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Deinotherium proavum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Deinotherium proavum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Palaeoreas lindermayeri4 sites
- Ancylotherium pentelicum3 sites
- Gazella3 sites
- Helladotherium duvernoyi3 sites
- Palaeoryx3 sites
- Bohlinia attica2 sites
- Choerolophodon pentelici2 sites
- Dihoplus schleiermacheri2 sites
- Dremotherium2 sites
- Helicotragus2 sites
- Hipparion mediterraneum2 sites
- Hyaena2 sites
- Hystrix primigenia2 sites
- Ictitherium2 sites
- Machairodus2 sites
- Mammut2 sites
- Microstonyx major2 sites
- Miotragocerus valenciennesi2 sites
- Mustela palaeattica2 sites
- Prostrepsiceros2 sites
- Protoryx2 sites
- Rhinoceros2 sites
- Sus2 sites
- Testudo marmorum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Deinotherium proavum, 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
4 references- The huge-sized deinothere Deinotherium proavum (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene localities Pikermi and Halmyropotamos (Greece)3
- Late Miocene proboscideans from Samos Island (Greece) revisited: new specimens from old collections2
- New proboscidean specimens from the Late Miocene of Romania: the huge-sized deinothere Deinotherium proavum, the rare “Mammut” cf. obliquelophus and the first description of the shovel-tusker Konobelodon from the country1
- An almost complete skeleton of a large Deinotherium (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Aghia Photia, Siteia (Crete Island, Greece)1
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
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No picture of Deinotherium proavum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Deinotherium proavum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Deinotherium proavum 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 itDeinotherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1835