Menoceras barbouri
Daderot · Public Domain · 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
- MenocerasPBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rhinocerotidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
33 occurrences of Menoceras barbouri 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
33 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
12 formations
- Runningwater Formation8
- Oakville Formation3
- Zia Sand Formation3
- Delaho Formation2
- Cucaracha Formation2
- Vaqueros Formation2
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The named rock units Menoceras barbouri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Menoceras barbouri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Menoceras barbouri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
319 taxa- Merychyus elegans9 sites
- Cynarctoides acridens8 sites
- Metatomarctus canavus8 sites
- Archaeohippus blackbergi6 sites
- Desmocyon thomsoni5 sites
- Aletomeryx gracilis4 sites
- Anchitherium clarencei4 sites
- Miospermophilus4 sites
- Parahippus leonensis4 sites
- Pseudoblastomeryx advena4 sites
- Amphicyonidae3 sites
- Anchitherium3 sites
- Archaeolaginae3 sites
- Arretotherium fricki3 sites
- Barbouromeryx trigonocorneus3 sites
- Camelidae3 sites
- Cynelos3 sites
- Daphoenodon (Borocyon) robustum3 sites
- Desmocyon matthewi3 sites
- Equidae3 sites
- Leidymys3 sites
- Merycochoerus proprius3 sites
- Osbornodon iamonensis3 sites
- Phlaocyon3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Menoceras barbouri, 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
9 references- The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses16
- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals5
- Miocene rhinoceroses from the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain5
- New Late Uintan to Early Hemingfordian Land Mammal Assemblages from the Undifferentiated Sespe and Vaqueros Formations, Orange County, and from the Sespe and Equivalent Marine Formations in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, Southern California2
- Early Miocene land mammals and chronology of the Belgrade Formation, eastern North Carolina1
- North American Miocene Land Mammals from Panama1
- Middle Miocene land mammals from Panama: evidence for the age of the Neotropical rainforest1
- Rhinocerotidae1
- Rhinoceroses from the Thomas Farm Miocene of Florida1
Each of the 33 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 content1
Picture of Menoceras barbouri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Daderot
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMenoceras through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1964)