Longirostromeryx wellsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LongirostromeryxPBDB
- Diet
- browser, grazerPBDB, for Moschidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Moschidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
28 occurrences of Longirostromeryx wellsi 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
28 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
6 formations
- Ash Hollow Formation · Ogallala Group10
- Valentine Formation · Ogallala Group5
- Snake Creek Formation3
- Tesuque Formation2
- Fleming Formation1
- Santa Fe Formation1
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The named rock units Longirostromeryx wellsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Longirostromeryx wellsi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Longirostromeryx wellsi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
316 taxa- Pliohippus pernix12 sites
- Teleoceras major12 sites
- Pseudhipparion gratum11 sites
- Epicyon saevus10 sites
- Aelurodon ferox9 sites
- Archaeolaginae8 sites
- Procamelus grandis8 sites
- Protohippus supremus8 sites
- Aelurodon taxoides7 sites
- Cranioceras unicornis7 sites
- Eucastor tortus7 sites
- Leptocyon vafer7 sites
- Untermannerix copiosus7 sites
- Aepycamelus6 sites
- Calippus martini6 sites
- Cosoryx furcatus6 sites
- Leptocyon matthewi6 sites
- Metechinus amplior6 sites
- Paratomarctus temerarius6 sites
- Aphelops megalodus5 sites
- Calippus placidus5 sites
- Carpocyon webbi5 sites
- Hippotherium5 sites
- Merychippus coloradense5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Longirostromeryx wellsi, 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
11 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals5
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Ogallala Group in Nebraska5
- Systematics of the musk deer (Artiodactyla: Moschidae: Blastomerycinae) from the Miocene of North America4
- Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of late Cenozoic deposits in central Sioux County, western Nebraska4
- Road Log Neogene geology of the Española Basin, New Mexico2
- A contribution to the mammalian paleontology of the Ogallala group of South-Central South Dakota2
- The Burge and Minnechaduza Clarendonian Mammalian Faunas of North-Central Nebraska2
- The geology and paleontology of Ashfall Fossil Beds, a late Miocene (Clarendonian) mass-death assemblage, Antelope County and adjacent Knox County, Nebraska, USA1
- Miocene and Pliocene Artiodactyls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain1
- The lower Pliocene Ogallala-Wolf Creek vertebrate fauna, South Dakota1
- Pliocene Vertebrates From Big Spring Canyon South Dakota1
Each of the 28 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
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No picture of Longirostromeryx wellsi 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 Longirostromeryx wellsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Longirostromeryx wellsi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLongirostromeryx through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1904)