Floridameryx floridanus
No picture of Floridameryx floridanus 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 Floridameryx floridanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FloridameryxPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Floridameryx floridanus 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
2 formations
- Peace River Formation · Hawthorn Group3
- Alachua Formation1
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The named rock units Floridameryx floridanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Floridameryx floridanus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Floridameryx floridanus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
149 taxa- Enhydritherium terraenovae4 sites
- Borophagus pugnator3 sites
- Cormohipparion emsliei3 sites
- Hexameryx simpsoni3 sites
- Neohipparion eurystyle3 sites
- Tapirus polkensis3 sites
- Testudines3 sites
- Aphelops mutilus2 sites
- Borophagus hilli2 sites
- Caretta2 sites
- Cormohipparion ingenuum2 sites
- Cormohipparion plicatile2 sites
- Corystosiren varguezi2 sites
- Dinohippus mexicanus2 sites
- Epicyon haydeni2 sites
- Eretmochelys2 sites
- Eucyon davisi2 sites
- Felis rexroadensis2 sites
- Goniodelphis hudsoni2 sites
- Machairodus2 sites
- Megantereon hesperus2 sites
- Nannippus aztecus2 sites
- Nannippus westoni2 sites
- Odontoceti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Floridameryx floridanus, 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
2 references- Revision of the extinct Pseudoceratinae (Artiodactyla: Ruminantia: Gelocidae)4
- Terrestrial mammals of the Palmetto Fauna (early Pliocene, latest Hemphillian) from the Central Florida Phosphate District2
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
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No picture of Floridameryx floridanus 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 Floridameryx floridanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Floridameryx floridanus 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 itFloridameryx through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Webb 2008