Megatylopus

Megatylopus is an extinct genus of large camel, endemic to North America from the Late Miocene to the Pliocene, existing for approximately 7.4 million years. Fossil distribution ranged from North Carolina to California. It stood about 4.2 metres (14 ft) tall.

Megatylopus

Mitternacht90 at English Wikipedia · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
CameliniPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 93 occurrencesMiocene — about 72 of 93 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 93 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 93 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences10.0–9.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.9–6.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.2–5.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.4–4.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.2–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–1.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.7–900 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.4 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya900 ka

93 occurrences of Megatylopus 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

93 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

22 formations

Ash Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 42.39°N, 98.10°WAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 41.40°N, 102.40°WAsh Hollow — 41.10°N, 103.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.08°N, 100.67°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.20°N, 100.70°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.03°N, 100.75°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.00°N, 100.70°WChamita — 36.50°N, 107.00°WBlanco — 33.81°N, 101.21°WBlanco — 33.78°N, 101.29°WGoliad — 28.60°N, 97.70°WGoliad — 28.49°N, 97.67°WHunter Creek Sandstone — 39.53°N, 119.93°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WJuntura — 43.60°N, 117.50°WPanaca — 37.80°N, 114.30°WChalk Hills — 42.77°N, 115.92°WChalk Hills — 42.73°N, 115.87°WBridwell — 33.70°N, 101.10°WSnake Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WMuddy Creek — 34.70°N, 113.40°WMonarch Mill — 39.50°N, 118.50°WBedrock Spring — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBanta Shut-In — 29.27°N, 103.05°WHorned Toad — 35.30°N, 118.50°WBig Sandy — 34.70°N, 113.40°WRexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRingold — 46.30°N, 119.10°WEllensburg — 46.68°N, 120.67°WMcKay — 45.50°N, 118.80°W

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The named rock units Megatylopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megatylopus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Megatylopus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

679 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Megatylopus, 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

49 references

Each of the 93 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. 37 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 content1

Picture of Megatylopus

Credit
Mitternacht90 at English Wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew and Cook 1909)