Nimravus brachyops

Nimravus brachyops

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NimravusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nimravidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Nimravidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 31.8 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 12 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesMiocene32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32.3 Mya18 Mya

14 occurrences of Nimravus brachyops 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

14 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

5 formations

John Day — 44.60°N, 119.62°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.63°WJohn Day — 44.67°N, 119.65°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 41.70°N, 103.10°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WSespe — 34.25°N, 118.96°W

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The named rock units Nimravus brachyops 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.

Nimravus brachyops and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Nimravus brachyops and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

152 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Nimravus brachyops, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Nimravus brachyops

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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Laser scan

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Specimen
Nimravus brachyops · LACM:9384

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. (Cope 1878)