Merycoidodon culbertsonii

Merycoidodon culbertsonii

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerycoidodonPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 31.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 29.5 Mya.

Eocene — about 21 of 99 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 78 of 99 occurrencesOligocene37–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 10 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 10 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 10 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 10 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 10 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 10 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya31.8 Mya37.5 Mya29 Mya

99 occurrences of Merycoidodon culbertsonii on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

99 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

6 formations

Brule — 42.90°N, 105.20°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 41.80°N, 103.80°WBrule — 42.40°N, 103.80°WBrule — 43.00°N, 104.50°WBrule — 43.85°N, 102.50°WBrule — 43.71°N, 102.58°WBrule — 43.60°N, 102.45°WBrule — 43.20°N, 103.20°WChadron — 42.40°N, 103.80°WChadron — 42.80°N, 103.10°WChadron — 42.90°N, 105.20°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWhite River — 40.80°N, 103.10°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WRenova — 46.00°N, 112.00°WSage Creek — 45.00°N, 112.80°W

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The named rock units Merycoidodon culbertsonii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merycoidodon culbertsonii and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Merycoidodon culbertsonii and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

302 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Merycoidodon culbertsonii, 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

18 references

Each of the 99 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. 6 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 Merycoidodon culbertsonii

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
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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. (Leidy 1848)