Oromeryx
No picture of Oromeryx 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 Oromeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OromerycidaePBDB
- Diet
- browserPBDB, for Oromerycidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Oromerycidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.9 Mya and 37 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Oromeryx on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Oromeryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oromeryx and its relatives
EoceneWhere Oromeryx and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
185 taxa- Isectolophus annectens5 sites
- Epihippus gracilis4 sites
- Protoreodon pumilus4 sites
- Agriochoeridae3 sites
- Amynodon advenus3 sites
- Bunomeryx montanus3 sites
- Leptotragulus proavus3 sites
- Miocyon scotti3 sites
- Thisbemys uintensis3 sites
- Triplopus obliquidens3 sites
- Achaenodon2 sites
- Amynodon2 sites
- Baena arenosa2 sites
- Diplobunops matthewi2 sites
- Echmatemys2 sites
- Epitriplopus uintensis2 sites
- Harpagolestes leotensis2 sites
- Harpagolestes uintensis2 sites
- Hylomeryx2 sites
- Hyracodon medius2 sites
- Leptoreodon marshi2 sites
- Leptotragulus clarki2 sites
- Leptotragulus medius2 sites
- Limnocyon potens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Oromeryx, 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
5 references- Magnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the middle Eocene Uinta Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah2
- Magnetic stratigraphy, sedimentology, and mammalian faunas of the early Uintan Washakie Formation, Sand Wash Basin, northwestern Colorado1
- Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Big Bend Area Trans-Pecos Texas: Brontotheriidae1
- The Eocene Vertebrates of the Uinta Basin, Utah1
- A review of the Upper Eocene Artiodactyla of North America1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Oromeryx 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 Oromeryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oromeryx 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOromerycidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1894