Megaceroides
No picture of Megaceroides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Megaceroides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CervinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Cervidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Megaceroides on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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 Megaceroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megaceroides and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Megaceroides and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Equus3 sites
- Canis etruscus2 sites
- Castillomys crusafonti2 sites
- Hemitragus2 sites
- Hippopotamus antiquus2 sites
- Hystrix2 sites
- Lynx issiodorensis2 sites
- Mammuthus meridionalis2 sites
- Megantereon whitei2 sites
- Metacervocerus2 sites
- Stephanorhinus etruscus2 sites
- Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis2 sites
- Ursus etruscus2 sites
- Allohippus stenonis1 site
- Allophaiomys1 site
- Allophaiomys pliocaenicus1 site
- Apodemus mystacinus1 site
- Artiodactyla1 site
- Bison1 site
- Bos1 site
- Bovini1 site
- Canis mosbachensis1 site
- Caprini1 site
- Cervidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Megaceroides, 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
4 references- Middle and Late Villafranchian vertebrates from Tuscany and Umbria. A synopsis2
- Taphonomy and palaeoecology of an assemblage of large mammals: hyaenid activity in the Lower Pleistocene site at Venta MIcena (Orce, Guadix-Baza basin, Granada, Spain)1
- The Pliocene-Pleistocene section of the Fuente Nueva (Orce, Guadix-Baza Basin, Prov. of Granada, Spain) and the Fuente Nueva 3 site1
- Cesi, an early Middle Pleistocene site in the Colfiorito Basin (Umbro-Marchean Apennine), central Italy1
Each of the 5 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 Megaceroides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Megaceroides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megaceroides 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCervinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Joleaud 1914)