Odocoileus virginianus

Odocoileus virginianus

Uncredited · 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
Also called
white-tailed deerPBDB
Sits inside
OdocoileusPBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Odocoileus
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Cervidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 4 of 149 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 121 of 149 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 24 of 149 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 98 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

149 occurrences of Odocoileus virginianus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

149 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

11 formations

Bermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBermont — 26.90°N, 82.00°WBermont — 27.00°N, 82.20°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 80.80°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°WSeymour — 33.75°N, 99.50°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WDon Beds — 43.80°N, 79.30°WSilver Bluff — 32.56°N, 80.29°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WBeaumont — 29.66°N, 94.09°W

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The named rock units Odocoileus virginianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 132 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Odocoileus virginianus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Odocoileus virginianus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,464 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 148 sites for Odocoileus virginianus, 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

83 references

Each of the 149 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. 71 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 Odocoileus virginianus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itOdocoileus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zimmermann 1780)