Leptochoerus supremus
No picture of Leptochoerus supremus 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 Leptochoerus supremus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptochoerusPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Artiodactyla
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 29.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Leptochoerus supremus 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Leptochoerus supremus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptochoerus supremus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Leptochoerus supremus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Agnotocastor praetereadens1 site
- Bathornis geographicus1 site
- Leptauchenia major1 site
- Merycoidodon culbertsonii1 site
- Miniochoerus affinis1 site
- Nimravus brachyops1 site
- Oxetocyon cuspidatus1 site
- Palaeocastor wahlerti1 site
- Protapirus simplex1 site
- Proterix bicuspis1 site
- Proterix loomisi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leptochoerus supremus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The subfamily Leptochoerinae (Artiodactyla, Dichobunidae) of North America (Oligocene)1
- The Leptochoeridae1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Leptochoerus supremus 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 Leptochoerus supremus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptochoerus supremus 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 itLeptochoerus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Macdonald 1955