Hypertragulus calcaratus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HypertragulusPBDB
- Diet
- frugivorePBDB, for Hypertragulidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Hypertragulidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 9.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 24.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
26 occurrences of Hypertragulus calcaratus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
26 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
- Brule Formation · White River Group17
- John Day Formation5
- Chadron Formation1
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The named rock units Hypertragulus calcaratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hypertragulus calcaratus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Hypertragulus calcaratus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
228 taxa- Palaeolagus haydeni20 sites
- Leptomeryx evansi19 sites
- Megalagus turgidus13 sites
- Daphoenus11 sites
- Eumys elegans11 sites
- Ischyromys typus11 sites
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii11 sites
- Poebrotherium wilsoni11 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius10 sites
- Hyracodon nebraskensis10 sites
- Mesohippus bairdi10 sites
- Hyaenodon crucians8 sites
- Miniochoerus gracilis8 sites
- Archaeotherium mortoni7 sites
- Dinictis7 sites
- Ischyromys7 sites
- Miohippus7 sites
- Altasciurus relictus6 sites
- Leptictidae6 sites
- Leptomeryx6 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus6 sites
- Stylemys6 sites
- Gentilicamelus sternbergi5 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Hypertragulus calcaratus, 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
12 references- Revised chronostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the John Day Formation (Turtle Cove and Kimberly Members), Oregon, with implications for updated calibration of the Arikareean North American land mammal age4
- Preliminary biostratigraphy of the White River Group (Oligocene, Chadron and Brule formations) in the vicinity of Chadron, Nebraska4
- Elocene-Oligocene climatic change in North America: The White River Formation near Douglass, East-Central Wyoming3
- Geology and paleontology of the Oligocene Harris Ranch Badlands, southwestern South Dakota3
- Analysis of the Preservation of Community Structure in Assemblages of Fossil Mammals3
- Paleoecology of the Lower Nodular Zone, Brule Formation, in the Big Badlands of South Dakota2
- A contribution to the Tertiary geology and paleontology of northeastern Colorado2
- Eocene and Oligocene mammals from the Gravelly Range of Southwest Montana1
- Description of an Earliest Orellan Fauna From Badlands National Park, Interior, South Dakota and Implications for the Stratigraphic Position of the Bloom Basin Limestone Bed1
- Horned ruminants of North America1
- New vertebrates from the Montana Tertiary1
- Observations on the faunae of the Miocene Tertiaries of Oregon1
Each of the 26 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 Hypertragulus calcaratus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- 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 itHypertragulus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1873)