Megatylopus cochrani
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegatylopusPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Megatylopus
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Camelidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 4.7 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Megatylopus cochrani on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Megatylopus cochrani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megatylopus cochrani and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Megatylopus cochrani and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Gigantocamelus spatulus4 sites
- Plesippus simplicidens4 sites
- Megalonyx leptostomus3 sites
- Borophagus diversidens2 sites
- Canis lepophagus2 sites
- Dipoides rexroadensis2 sites
- Eucyon ferox2 sites
- Mammut americanum2 sites
- Neotoma (Paraneotoma) quadriplicata2 sites
- Ammospermophilus hanfordi1 site
- Borophagus1 site
- Borophagus hilli1 site
- Bretzia pseudalces1 site
- Bufo1 site
- Buisnictis breviramus1 site
- Castor californicus1 site
- Chelydra serpentina1 site
- Cnemidophorus sexlineatus1 site
- Coluber1 site
- Crotalus1 site
- Cryptotis adamsi1 site
- Dipodomyinae1 site
- Elaphe vulpina1 site
- Eucyon davisi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Megatylopus cochrani, 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
3 references- Megatylopus(?) cochrani (Mammalia: Camelidae): A Re-Evaluation3
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- The Vertebrate Faunas of the Pliocene Ringold Formation, South-Central Washington1
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 Megatylopus cochrani 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 Megatylopus cochrani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megatylopus cochrani 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 itMegatylopus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hibbard and Riggs 1949)