Megacerops

Megacerops

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrontotheriitaPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Brontotheriidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Length
5 mWikidata
Mass
3.3 tonneWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.7 Mya to 37 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 45.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 47 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 47 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences39.7 Mya37 Mya46.4 Mya33.4 Mya

47 occurrences of Megacerops on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

47 occurrences

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

9 formations

Chadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 43.92°N, 102.58°WChadron — 43.60°N, 102.45°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°WChadron — 43.75°N, 103.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WWhite River — 40.97°N, 106.22°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WChambers Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°WNorwood Tuff — 41.10°N, 111.40°WPreitos — 29.80°N, 104.50°WClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.28°WUinta — 40.20°N, 109.90°W

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The named rock units Megacerops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megacerops and its relatives

Eocene

Where Megacerops and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

367 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Megacerops, 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

26 references

Each of the 47 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Megacerops

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Megacerops sp. · UCM:Paleontology:UCM:FossilVert:17474

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBrontotheriita through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1870