Hystricops venustus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HystricopsPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Castoridae
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Castoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 16.3 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Hystricops venustus 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Hystricops venustus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hystricops venustus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hystricops venustus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Epicyon haydeni4 sites
- Epicyon saevus4 sites
- Aphelops megalodus3 sites
- Cormohipparion occidentale3 sites
- Teleoceras major3 sites
- Calippus cerasinus2 sites
- Cranioceras unicornis2 sites
- Leptocyon matthewi2 sites
- Neohipparion trampasense2 sites
- Paratomarctus euthos2 sites
- Prodipoides katensis2 sites
- Protohippus gidleyi2 sites
- Pseudhipparion skinneri2 sites
- Pseudoceras skinneri2 sites
- Pterogaulus barbarellae2 sites
- Ustatochoerus major2 sites
- Acris1 site
- Aelurodon ferox1 site
- Aelurodon taxoides1 site
- Agkistrodon1 site
- Alilepus1 site
- Ameiseophis robinsoni1 site
- Ammospermophilus junturensis1 site
- Antecalomys phthanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hystricops venustus, 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
3 references- A new tribe of castoroidine beavers from the late Arikareean to Hemphillian (Oligocene–Miocene) of western North America2
- Rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the Late Clarendonian (Miocene) Ash Hollow Formation, Brown County, Nebraska1
- Notice of Remains of Extinct Vertebrata, from the Valley of the Niobrara River, Collected during the Exploring Expedition of 1857, in Nebraska, under the Command of Lieut. G. K. Warren, U. S. Top. Eng., by Dr. F. V. Hayden, Geologist to the Expedition1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Hystricops venustus 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 Hystricops venustus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hystricops venustus 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 itHystricops through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1858)