Dorcatherium naui

Dorcatherium naui

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DorcatheriumPBDB
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 4.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya11.1 Mya23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Dorcatherium naui 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

20 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

5 formations

Brackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.00°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°E

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The named rock units Dorcatherium naui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dorcatherium naui and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dorcatherium naui and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Dorcatherium naui, 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

16 references

Each of the 20 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. 4 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 content2

Picture of Dorcatherium naui

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Dorcatherium naui · snsb-bspg:2018 ix

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 itDorcatherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kaup 1833