Dorcabune

MUHAMMAD AKBAR KHAN MUHAMMAD AKHTAR GEORGE ILIOPOULOS - HINA · 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
- TragulidaePBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, grazerPBDB, for Tragulidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tragulidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
24 occurrences of Dorcabune 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
24 occurrences- Miocene90%
- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene7%
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
- Manchar Formation7
- Chinji Formation · Siwalik Group2
- Chinji Formation · Siwalik Group2
- Dhokpathan Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Nagri Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Dhok Pathan Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Dorcabune has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dorcabune and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dorcabune and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
259 taxa- Dorcatherium12 sites
- Listriodon pentapotamiae8 sites
- Selenoportax8 sites
- Potamochoerus7 sites
- Alilepus6 sites
- Bovidae6 sites
- Brachyrhizomys6 sites
- Conohyus sindiensis6 sites
- Dorcatherium minus6 sites
- Hemimeryx6 sites
- Hyotherium6 sites
- Ictitherium6 sites
- Laccopithecus robustus6 sites
- Muntiacus6 sites
- Neocricetodon6 sites
- Parapodemus6 sites
- Sivaonyx bathygnathus6 sites
- Dremomys5 sites
- Hystrix5 sites
- Metacervulus5 sites
- Monosaulax5 sites
- Proboscidea5 sites
- Suidae5 sites
- Tupaiidae5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Dorcabune, 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
10 references- Preliminary report on the geology and vertebrate fauna of the Miocene Manchar Formation, Sind, Pakistan7
- The Artiodactyla of Ramapithecus site, Lufeng, Yunnan5
- A comparison of larger fossil mammals in the stratotypes of the Chinji, Nagri and Dhok Pathan Formations (Punjab, Pakistan)4
- Siwalik mammals of the Jammu Sub-Himalaya, India: an appraisal of their diversity and habitats.2
- New tragulid remains from the early/middle Miocene and a revision of their occurrence in Greece1
- Geochronology of Ailuropoda–Stegodon fauna and Gigantopithecus in Guangxi Province, southern China1
- Discovery of chalicothere and Dorcabune from the upper part (lower Pleistocene) of the Irrawaddy Formation, Myanmar1
- Miocene vertebrates from the Siwalik Group, Western Nepal1
- Paleoecology of a Miocene, tropical, upland fauna: Lufeng, China1
- Fossil tragulid from the Nagri beds of Haritalyan-Gar, Himachal Pradesh1
Each of the 24 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 content2

Picture of Dorcabune
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- MUHAMMAD AKBAR KHAN MUHAMMAD AKHTAR GEORGE ILIOPOULOS - HINA
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Dorcabune anthracotheroides · AMNH:FM:19652
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTragulidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilgrim 1910