Gomphotherium angustidens

Gomphotherium angustidens

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GomphotheriumPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Gomphotherium
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Gomphotherium
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesMiocene — about 50 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.8–9.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya7.246 Mya23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

50 occurrences of Gomphotherium angustidens 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

50 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

10 formations

Brackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.15°N, 9.88°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EBeglia — 34.00°N, 8.00°EHofuf — 25.68°N, 49.48°EGrund — 48.63°N, 16.06°EBakate — 4.27°N, 36.60°ELothidok — 3.22°N, 35.83°ECórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WPietra Leccese — 40.15°N, 18.50°EGnilyane — 42.80°N, 23.06°E

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The named rock units Gomphotherium angustidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gomphotherium angustidens and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gomphotherium angustidens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

659 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Gomphotherium angustidens, 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

33 references

Each of the 50 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. 21 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 content3

Picture of Gomphotherium angustidens

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Gomphotherium angustidens · dpc:12926

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itGomphotherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burmeister 1837