Floridaceras whitei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FloridacerasPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Floridaceras
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Floridaceras
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Floridaceras whitei 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
6 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Floridaceras whitei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Floridaceras whitei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Floridaceras whitei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Anchitherium clarencei2 sites
- Menoceras barbouri2 sites
- Merycochoerus matthewi2 sites
- Merycoidodontidae2 sites
- Parahippus leonensis2 sites
- Alligator olseni1 site
- Amphicyon longiramus1 site
- Anhinga subvolans1 site
- Anilioides minuatus1 site
- Archaeohippus1 site
- Archaeohippus blackbergi1 site
- Arctoidea1 site
- Boa constrictor1 site
- Boreortalis laesslei1 site
- Bouromeryx submilleri1 site
- Bufo praevius1 site
- Buteo1 site
- Calamagras floridanus1 site
- Canidae1 site
- Capitonidae1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Compsothlypidae indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Floridaceras whitei, 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
5 references- North American Miocene Land Mammals from Panama2
- The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses1
- Middle Miocene land mammals from Panama: evidence for the age of the Neotropical rainforest1
- Rhinoceroses from the Thomas Farm Miocene of Florida1
- The extinct Camelidae of North America and some associated forms1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Floridaceras whitei
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Geekgecko
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Floridaceras whitei 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 itFloridaceras through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1964