Gomphotherium calvertense

Gomphotherium calvertensis Gazin & Collins, 1950, a relative of Gomphotherium calvertense — not Gomphotherium calvertense itself

Not Gomphotherium calvertense. This is Gomphotherium calvertensis Gazin & Collins, 1950, a relative — both are Mammutidae.

M. White · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
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 most 8.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 9 of 9 occurrencesMiocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20.9 Mya11.1 Mya

9 occurrences of Gomphotherium calvertense 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

9 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

2 formations

Calvert — 38.40°N, 76.50°WCalvert — 38.50°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.77°N, 76.66°WCalvert — 38.89°N, 76.10°WChoptank — 38.16°N, 76.83°WChoptank — 38.97°N, 75.80°W

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The named rock units Gomphotherium calvertense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gomphotherium calvertense and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Gomphotherium calvertense, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 Gomphotherium calvertensis Gazin & Collins, 1950

Source
GBIF
Credit
M. White
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Gazin and Collins 1950