Merycoides longiceps
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MerycoidesPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.1 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Merycoides longiceps 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Merycoides longiceps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Merycoides longiceps and its relatives
MioceneWhere Merycoides longiceps and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Hypsiops brachymelis2 sites
- <Possible protolabine>1 site
- Archaeolagus macrocephalus1 site
- Archaeotherium caninus1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Daphaenodon sp.1 site
- Entoptychus individens1 site
- Entoptychus planifrons1 site
- Merychyus arenarum1 site
- Merycochoerus matthewi1 site
- Mesocyon1 site
- Mylagaulodon1 site
- Nanotragulus1 site
- Nexuotapirus robustus1 site
- Oxydactylus lacota1 site
- Paradaphoenus1 site
- Rudiomys mcgrewi1 site
- Schizodontomys greeni1 site
- Stenomylus hitchcocki1 site
- Submerycochoerus bannackensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Merycoides longiceps, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- John Day Basin paleontology field trip guide and road log: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology1
- Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Merycoides longiceps 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 Merycoides longiceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Merycoides longiceps 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.
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What may have been alongside itMerycoides through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douglass 1907)