Iberomeryx
Iberomeryx is an extinct genus of tragulid that lived in Europe and Balkanatolia during the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.
No picture of Iberomeryx 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 Iberomeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TragulidaePBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, grazerPBDB, for Tragulidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tragulidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
23 occurrences of Iberomeryx 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
23 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
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The named rock units Iberomeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Iberomeryx and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Iberomeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Pseudoltinomys major6 sites
- Sciuromys cayluxi6 sites
- Anguini5 sites
- Blainvillimys helmeri5 sites
- Coluber cadurci5 sites
- Palaeosciurus goti5 sites
- Schizogliravus micio5 sites
- Bachitherium curtum4 sites
- Butseloglis tenuis4 sites
- Cryptomeryx gaudryi4 sites
- Glamys priscus4 sites
- Issiodoromys medius4 sites
- Lophiomerycidae4 sites
- Nimravus intermedius4 sites
- Pseudocricetodon montalbanensis4 sites
- Atavocricetodon3 sites
- Cordylidae3 sites
- Dinailurictis bonali3 sites
- Eomys antiquus3 sites
- Lophiomeryx mouchelini3 sites
- Necrosaurus3 sites
- Paratheridomys margaritae3 sites
- Stenoplesictis cayluxi3 sites
- Tetracus nanus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Iberomeryx, 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
5 references- Oligocene ruminants from the Kızılırmak Formation, Çankırı-Çorum Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey9
- Iberomeryx minor (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Early Oligocene of Soulce (Canton Jura, NW Switzerland): systematics and palaeodiet6
- Les ruminants de Pech Desse et de Pech du Fraysse (Quercy; MP28); évolution des ruminants de l'oligocène d'Europe5
- Additions to the late Eocene Süngülü mammal fauna in easternmost Anatolia and the Eocene-Oligocene transition at the periphery of Balkanatolia2
- Ruminants reveal Eocene Asiatic palaeobiogeographical provinces as the origin of diachronous mammalian Oligocene dispersals into Europe1
Each of the 23 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 Iberomeryx 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 Iberomeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Iberomeryx was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Iberomeryx”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTragulidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabunia 1964